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Locality: |
Brackloon |
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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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70 m
Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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Geography: |
Overlooks the Anascaul Valley from the summit of an E-W ridge at the foot of Knockafeehane mountain. Situated on the SW side of the gently sloping summit. Surrounded by undulating pasture. The field is under intensive ploughing, but the area surrounding the panel features numerous large boulders and is thus not directly affected. |
Proximity: |
In close proximity to a standing stone, a possible cist grave and 2-3 piles of quartz pebbles. |
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Geology: |
Sandstone boulder |
Surface: |
Rough flat surface with many fissures, including a deep one which runs through the centre of the panel, and where small patches of grass grows |
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Dimensions:
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Length 2.40 m.
Width 1.90 m.
Depth 0.40 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). The motifs are spread across the central section of the panel, with many of the cups apparently arranged in curving lines. Some of the curvilinear grooves may be natural.
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Figures: |
total number 64
Cups, cup and penannular ring, linear grooves, cup and radial groove
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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: |
A NW fragment featuring motifs broke away from the panel some time prior to 1939 and was presented to O'Connell (1939) - its current location is unknown.Exposed to natural causes of erosion and weathering |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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Intervention: |
A program to locate the missing fragment needs to be initiated. The panel is recorded by Cuppage (1986). Listed in the Sites and Monuments Record of Ireland |
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By |
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| Record n. 372 / 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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