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Name      
Ireland    Dingle Peninsula, Ballyhoneen 4 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:

 Ballyhoneen / Kilmore

Region:

 County Kerry

Area:

 Dingle Peninsula

 

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View from the standing stone location towards Lough Adoon and its waterfall - the stone probably once stood much higher, as it appears to have subsided into the peat (1m scale shown. Photograph: O'Connor 2001)
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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:

150 m
Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:
On a gentle north facing slope overlooking a large open valley and a major river. The decorated surface faces southwest. Landuse consists of rough grazing and peat cutting

Proximity:

 A short distance from a megalithic wedge tomb, a second standing stone, pre-bog field systems, the Scorid River, Lough Adoon and a large waterfall

Geology:
Sandstone boulder

Surface:
Very flat smooth surface, with around 60% covered in a flat white lichen. The decorated surface is near vertical, at 100 degrees inclination. No signs of dressing were noted.

Dimensions:
Length 1.90 m.  Width 1.00 m.  Depth 0.30 m.

 

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Art        

Description:

 Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
Two possible cup marks are recorded on this standing stone, however only the central motif seems to be artificial, as the second appears to be a natural hollow based on its uneven form

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, Ballyhoneen 4 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:
Exposed to natural causes of erosion and weathering

Conservation:

 Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

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

 
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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