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Locality: |
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County Kerry |
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Dingle Peninsula |
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Altitude:
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150 m
Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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Geography: |
Previously located in an improved pasture field, on the SE slopes of Knocknakilton overlooking the Emlagh river valley, but since removed by Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne to the Museum at Ballyferriter |
Proximity: |
Previously overlooked a river valley. The surrounding area features a standing stone, ringforts, and a souterrain, as well as a modern settlement with associated roadways |
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Geology: |
Sandstone boulder |
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Very eroded in places, multiple fissures, but largely smooth and flat |
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Dimensions:
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Length 1.20 m.
Width 0.80 m.
Depth 15.00 m.
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
The 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 central motif is comprised of a cup surrounded by a penannular ring and two complete outer rings. A radial groove leads out from the cup and a natural groove runs from the middle ring out in the opposite direction. Surrounding this motif is a scatter of cups and one probable cup and ring which has been eroded and now appears as a cup and penannular ring. A cup mark is also positioned between the middle and outer rings.
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Figures: |
total number 15
Cups, cup and ring, cup and rings, 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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Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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Risk: |
The surface is badly eroded in places with at least 2 motifs damaged by spalling. |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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Intervention: |
This boulder was removed from its original location where it was incorporated into a field fenceline and is now in the posession of Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne (Ballyferriter Museum) and is on permanent display. Its current location indoors should prevent further surface damage by weathering. Recorded in Cuppage (1986) Listed in the Sites and Monuments Record of Ireland |
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By |
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| Record n. 387 / 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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