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Locality: |
Loughadoon |
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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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120 m
Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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Geography: |
Located 30m from the western shore of Lough Adoon surrounded by sheer mountains on the southern, western and eastern sides and overlooking the island in the middle of the lough. Landuse consists of rough pasture and, in the wider area, peat cutting |
Proximity: |
On the shore of lake Lough Adoon overlooking the long waterfall, and within a short distance of the Scorid River, a wedge tomb, two standing stones, and pre-bog field systems |
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Geology: |
Earthfast sandstone boulder |
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Smooth flat surface sloping slightly eastwards at 15 degrees inclination. Flat lichens, mosses and other small plants grow in the fissures. |
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Dimensions:
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Length 2.40 m.
Width 2.05 m.
Depth 0.60 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
The designs are classic examples 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). Three composite motifs consisting of cup marks surrounded by 3 or 4 complete or penannular grooves area arranged across the western edge of the boulder. Each feature associated groves - a radial groove extending from the cup to the outer ring, a radial groove extending from the cup and beyond the outer ring, and grooves extending from either side of the outer ring across the panel. A few curved grooves and a cup mark are dispersed between the major motifs.
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Figures: |
total number 21
Cup and multiple rings, cup and multiple penannullar rings, cup and radial groove, linear and curvilinear grooves
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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: |
Exposed to natural causes of erosion and weathering |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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Intervention: |
Recorded by Finlay (1973), Cuppage (1986) and O'Coileain (in prep.) Listed in the Sites and Monuments Record of Ireland |
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By |
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| Record n. 384 / 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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