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Ireland |
Locality: |
Gowlane East |
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Region: |
County Kerry |
Area: |
Dingle Peninsula |
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Environment & Surface |
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Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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Geography: |
The precise location of the panel remains unknown, and it was last recorded in 1877 (Graves 1877, 288). However the townland lies on the south-facing slopes of the central mountain ridge running along the peninsula |
Proximity: |
The slopes are divided by several small streams and rivers, which drain from the Lough above (Loch Bhearna na Gaoithe) to the Owenalondrig River. There is a standing stone recorded in the area, and a modern settlement and associated roadways to the south. |
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Geology: |
Sandstone boulder |
Surface: |
Unknown (the location of the panel is unknown, and it was last recorded by Graves in 1877) |
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Dimensions:
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Length 1.65 m.
Width 1.00 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
The motifs are arranged across the wider half of the panel, and a line of small cups separates the undecorated section of the stone. The composite glyphs consist of two cup and rings, two cups with two rings, and a cup with three rings. 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 20
Cups, rings
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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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Notes: |
Graves noted that two of the panels recorded at this location appeared to form part of a larger megalithic monument (Graves 1877, 288) |
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Conservation |
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Status: |
Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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Risk: |
Unknown (the location of the panel is unknown, and it was last recorded by Graves in 1877) |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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Intervention: |
The motifs were record and published in Graves (1877, p. 288) and the stones are included in Cuppage (1986). Listed in the Sites and Monuments Record of Ireland |
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| Record n. 377 / 807 |
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It is proposed by: Instituto Politécnico de Tomar (IPT, Portugal),
CUEBC - European University Centre for Cultural Heritage (Italy - Europe),
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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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