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Ireland |
Locality: |
Kildurrihy East |
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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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50 m
Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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Geography: |
On the eastern side of the Kildurrihy village road, but was apparently moved within living memory from a prostrate position beyond a farmhouse on the western side of the road. The land slopes gently eastwards. Landuse: residential / roadway |
Proximity: |
Within a village near the main village road, and a short distance from a holy well, stream, and the former village church. |
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Geology: |
Sandstone boulder |
Surface: |
The northeastern face of this upright boulder is very smooth and flat suggesting the panel may have been prostrate at one time, with this the upper surface exposed to the elements. The southwesern face is rougher in texture. Both sides are slightly convex and feature flat lichens. Angle of inclination 90 degrees. |
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Dimensions:
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Length 2.20 m.
Width 1.65 m.
Depth 0.55 m.
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
A broad standing stone featuring a large conical depression (probably a ballaun, or grinding basin) on its east face, and 3 possible cup marks and four incised crosses on the west face (the latter being relatively modern - apparently produced within living memory). The cups are consistent with the cup and ring tradition known across Ireland, the UK and Western Europe, though they appear to have been enhanced at a later stage - probably during the period when the crosses were added
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Figures: |
total number 8
Cups, grooves and crosses (the carved initials are not included here)
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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: |
The landowner of the house in front of which the panel sits advised that she remembered her son carving the motifs with a metal rod as a small boy. While this explains the cross motifs, initials (some of which match those of her son), it seems likely that the cups and grooves are prehistoric. Close examination of the motifs shows that what are probably original cup marks have been subsequently deepened using a sharp tool. The cups and grroves appear to have undergone more weathering than the crosses, and the former are positioned along the ridge of the stone, rather than on the flat surface. The landowner also reports that for several generations the stone had functioned as a meeting place for the children of the village who would dance and socialise there. |
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Conservation |
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Status: |
Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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Risk: |
The surface of this panel has been affected by the carving of cross motifs, initials and also the application of an area of grey paint, all in relatively recent times. Exposed to natural causes of erosion and weathering. |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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Intervention: |
Location and description published by Cuppage (1986). Listed in the Sites and Monuments Record of Ireland |
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| Record n. 381 / 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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