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Name      
Ireland    Iveragh Peninsula, Derrynablaha 2 EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art
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Keywords: Cup marks, Open-air, Cup and ring, Abstract, Neolithic, Bronze-Age, Rock-art, Spiral
Institution: University College Dublin  http://www.ucd.ie
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 University College Dublin
 
Location
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Country:

 Ireland

Locality:

 Derrynablaha

Region:

 County Kerry

Area:

 Iveragh Peninsula

 

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Plan of the motifs (Source: O'Sullivan & Sheehan, 1996, Fig. 53, after Finlay 1973)
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:

250 m
Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:
The panel is located at the head of the Kealduff river valley, surrounded by steep mountains on all but the southeastern sides, in rough pasture on a southeasterly facing slope forming the spine of one of the Mullaghanattin Mountain spurs

Proximity:

 Several hundred meters from a lake (Lough Brin), and close to several tributary streams of the Kealduff River, and a standing stone, as well as a modern settlement, and the main roadway through the valley

Geology:
Sandstone boulder

Surface:
Flat surface

Dimensions:
Length 1.15 m.  Width 0.70 m.

 

 
Art        

Description:

 Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
The panel surface is densely carved with deep cups and rings so that the motifs extend to the very edges of the stone. The panel is notable in that it features a small area of pock marks or 'blanket pecking' as well as a spiralling ring which encloses a central cup and ring. The motifs are characteristic of the cup-and-ring tradition seen across Ireland, the UK, France, and Iberia, consisting of deeply pecked glyphs

Figures:
total number 41
Cups, cup and rings, blanket pecking (possible), penannular rings, linear grooves, spiral

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 Iveragh Peninsula, Derrynablaha 2 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:
Recorded by Finlay (1973) and published by O'Sullivan and Sheehan (1996). Listed in the Sites and Monuments Record of Ireland

 
By          

Compiler:

 Blaze O'Connor

Institution:

 University College Dublin  http://www.ucd.ie
 
         Record n. 397 / 807
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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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