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Locality: |
Ballyhoneen / Kilmore |
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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: |
Incorporated into a wedge tomb on the level summit of a low hillock on the eastern side of the Scorid river valley (forms the middle orthostat in the south wall). Landuse consists of rough grazing and peat cutting |
Proximity: |
Relatively close to a river, lough and waterfall, and located within a pre-bog field system which features settlements, ritual / funary sites, enclosures, standing stones,and fulachta fiadh. |
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Geology: |
Sandstone slab |
Surface: |
Relatively flat smooth surface with multiple fissures around the edges of the panel. The decoration faces north within the interior of the tomb. No signs of dressing were noted. The decorated surface stands at a 45 degree angle, tilted slightly towards the ground |
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Dimensions:
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Length 0.70 m.
Width 0.65 m.
Depth 0.18 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
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). A single cup and ring.
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Figures: |
total number 2
Cup and ring
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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: |
Relatively sheltered from natural causes of erosion and weathering due to its position inside the tomb. The ring motif is quite faint in places. |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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Intervention: |
The site is marked as an area of interest within an educational walking tour of the valley which is privately owned but is accessible to the public as a natural park owing to its environmental and archaeological significance. Recorded in Cuppage (1986). Listed in the Sites and Monuments Record of Ireland |
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By |
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| Record n. 364 / 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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