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Name      
Ireland    Dingle Peninsula, Ardbeg 1 EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art
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Keywords: Cup marks, Open-air, Cup and ring, Abstract, Neolithic, Bronze-Age, Rock-art
Institution: University College Dublin  http://www.ucd.ie
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 University College Dublin
 
Location
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Country:

 Ireland

Locality:

 Ardbeg

Region:

 County kerry

Area:

 Dingle Peninsula

 

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General view of the church and graveyard where the panel is reportedly located (Photograph: O'Connor 2001)
Copyright. No commercial use of EuroPreArt content is allowed. Specific © for pictures and drawings is mentioned in the captions or owned by each Author or Institution.
Disclaim. The EuroPreArt project fully endorses the most recent documentation policies. It must be outlined the absolute forbidding of any disruptive method and the necessity of a total respect for archaeological sites. It is also to be noticed that no substances shall be applied to rock art for recording purposes. Some pictures of the EuroPreArt records are related to past recording techniques and may not fully match these policies. They are an historical documentation. Please refer to local archaeological official authorities for any recording purpose. Please take a look also over EuroPreArt guidelines.
 
Environment & Surface

Altitude:

10 m
Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:
The panel is recorded as being located in the southwestern corner of Stradbally Graveyard, though the panel could not be identified during a recent site visit. The area slopes gently towards the coast to the northwest

Proximity:

 Within the grounds of a medieval church, now in ruins and the graveyard surrounding the site, a short distance from the coast and the roadway

Geology:
Sandstone slab

Surface:
The panel could not be located in the position recorded in Cuppage (1986)

Dimensions:
Length 1.75 m.  Width 0.85 m.  Depth 0.15 m.

 

 
Art        

Description:

 Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
A single cup mark is recorded on the centre of this panel. Cup marks are commonly occurring motifs within the tradition of 'cup-and-ring marks' of the Galician style found across Ireland, the United Kingdom Western France and Iberia. They consist of deep pecked glyphs produced with a hard tool (probably stone or antler) and are invariably abstract.

Figures:
total number 1
Cups only

Chronology:

 Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
No absolute dates are available but generally accepted as Late Neolithic / Early Bronze Age

Notes:
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
Ireland EuroPreArt general bibliography, by University College DublinGeneral (country)
Specific Dingle Peninsula, Ardbeg 1 bibliography, by University College DublinSpecific (site)
Rock Art Studies: A Bibliographic worldwide Database (external link). Compiled by Leigh Marymor. Copyright (C) 2001-2002 by the Library, University of California, Berkeley Bibliographic
Rock Art
Database

 

 
Conservation        

Status:

 Public   Private   Park   Classified site

Risk:
This panel was not located during the site visit

Conservation:

 Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:
It is likely that the boulder was moved from its original location to within the graveyard walls. The location and a general description is recorded by Cuppage (1986). Listed in the Sites and Monuments Record of Ireland

 
By          

Compiler:

 Blaze O'Connor

Institution:

 University College Dublin  http://www.ucd.ie
 
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EuroPreArt, European Prehistoric Art, is a web-based archaeological project funded by the European Union which aims to establish a lasting data-base of European prehistoric art documentation, to launch the base of an European institutional network and to contribute to the awareness of the diversity and richness of European Prehistoric Art.
It is proposed by: Instituto Politécnico de Tomar (IPT, Portugal), CUEBC - European University Centre for Cultural Heritage (Italy - Europe), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España), Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón (España), Université de Liège (Belgique), Gotland University College (Sverige), University College Dublin (Eire), Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Italia), Study Centre and Museum of Prehistoric Art of Pinerolo (Italia), The European Centre for Prehistoric Research in the Alto Ribatejo (Portugal), ArqueoJovem - a youth NGO (Portugal).
Instituto Politécnico de Tomar - Portugal CUEBC - European University Centre for Cultural Heritage, Ravello - Italy CSIC - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid - Spain Orme dell'Uomo - Footsteps of Man, Valcamonica - Italy Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón, Extremadura -Spain Liège University - Belgium Gotland University - Sweden University College Dublin - Ireland CeSMAP - Centro Studi e Museo d'Arte Preistorica. Pinerolo, Italy Arqueo Jovem
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