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Locality: |
Ballyglasheen |
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Region: |
County Kerry |
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Dingle Peninsula |
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Environment & Surface |
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Altitude:
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150 m
Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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Geography: |
Located on a steep lower south facing slope on Ballynahunt Mountain with commanding views over Anascaul valley and across to Dingle Bay and the Iveragh Peninsula. Landuse consists of pasture for sheep grazing. It is difficult to say whether the panel is in its original location - the panel is prostrate, but also lies adjacent to the field boundary. |
Proximity: |
Abutting the south side of a field fence and near a stream, standingstone, a series of small cairns, and a modern settlement and roadway |
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Geology: |
Sandstone - prostrate slab |
Surface: |
Smooth textured, undulating surface with fissures, and small amounts of flat lichen cover. The decorated surface has an inclination of 25 degrees, and the panel slopes to the south. |
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Dimensions:
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Length 1.50 m.
Width 1.20 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
The motifs are arranged relatively evenly across the surface of the stone, and the composition takes natural features into the rock surface into account, for instance one cup is enclosed bu a linear motif which, together with a natural fissure and ridge forms a square. The motifs consist of abstract '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).
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Figures: |
total number 40
Cups, cup and ring, cup and penannular ring, linear motifs
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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
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Conservation |
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Status: |
Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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Risk: |
Some motifs quite badly weathered and eroded. In a sketch by the Co. Kerry Field Club in 1945 the majority of the cup marks are shown with rings - only three rings are now visible. The stone is vulnerable to stock damage due to is ground level position in a grazing field, and also to general weathering by the elements |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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Intervention: |
Recorded by Cuppage (1986). Listed in the Sites and Monuments Record of Ireland |
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By |
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| Record n. 362 / 807 |
No commercial use is allowed. Specific © is mentioned in the captions or owned by each Author or Institution |
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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).
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