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Ireland    Dingle Peninsula, Milltown 1 EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art

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Keywords: Cup marks, Open-air, Cup and ring, Abstract, Neolithic, Bronze-Age, Rock-art, Spiral, Megalithic
Institution: University College Dublin  http://www.ucd.ie
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Location
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Country:

Ireland

Locality:

Milltown

Region:

County Kerry

Area:

Dingle Peninsula

 

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Photograph looking inland towards the mountains behind Milltown and Dingle showing the general location of the panel, and the associated recumbant stone (Photograph: O'Connor 2001)
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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:

10 m
Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:
Located in gently sloping pasture on the N side of Dingle Habour. The land slopes slightly to the southeast

Proximity:

Within 50m of a pair of standing stones and within 20m of a single tall standing stone. Located c500m from the coastline of Dingle Harbour, 15m from the main Dingle-Ventry road, and a short distance from a modern cemetary, settlement and field boundaries

Geology:

Sandstone boulder

Surface:

Sloping, gently undulating surface with multiple fissures and lichens. The bedding planes of the stone were visible. Carved surface has a current inclination of 30 degrees, but the stone may once have been upright. No sign of dressing, but appears to be broken at the northern (thickest) end

Dimensions:
Length 4.20 m.  Width 1.25 m.  Depth 0.60 m.

 

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Art        

Description:

Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
The range of complex 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). On the eastern face the motifs are concentrated at the wider northern end of the panel, with a solitary cup and ring positioned at the southern end. O'Nuallain (1978) suggested that the stone may once have been upright, along with a second undecorated stone close by. The motifs include some complex designs incorporating enclosing curvilinear grooves and long radial grooves. Also featured is an unusual spiralling ring enclosing a cup with a radial groove. The cup and rings are arranged across the upper edge of the face, with their radial grooves running parallel directly down the sloping surface. The majority of cup marks are arranged seemingly randomly across the decorated section of the panel. The ring enclosing the isolated cup at the southern end of the panel is considerably thicker than the other rings (this, along with its isolated position, may indicate that it was added at a different time or that this individual motif was accorded greater significance).

Figures:
total number 58
Cups, cup and ring, cup and spiral, cup and radial groove, linear grooves, enclosing curvilinear grooves curvilinear grooves

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:

The site, consisting of a number of standing stones and two recumbant stones (one of which is described here) is known as the 'Gates of Glory' (local information)
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
Ireland EuroPreArt general bibliography, by University College DublinGeneral (country)
Specific Dingle Peninsula, Milltown 1 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

 

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Conservation        

Status:

Public   Private   Park   Classified site

Risk:

Some of the motifs are faint due to natural causes of erosion and weathering. A large crack is forming on the northwestern edge and the resultant fragment is splitting away.

Conservation:

Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:

Recorded by Finlay (1973) and Cuppage (1986) Listed in the Sites and Monuments Record of Ireland

 

By          

Compiler:

Blaze O'Connor

Institution:

University College Dublin  http://www.ucd.ie
 
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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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