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tiompan Oct 21, 2007 15:57:13
Replying to CianMcLiam

CianMcLiam wrote:
Two things to add, the sound quality isn't great, you may have to adjust your speakers and EQ. Also most of it refers to the slides so it doesn't have quite the same effect just as an audio file.

He does however have interesting things to say about the dating of the RA, being pre-passage tomb Neolithic or even earlier than that! Associations with the bronze age are because of it's re-use in later monuments and the failure to reasses the date of RA after radiocarbon dating pushed back the date of passage tomb art. Any thoughts on this?

Cian , I tried the addy but got a "this is not a proper addy " type response .
The reuse of RA in passage tombs (as well as in the BA-IA) would make them older than the tombs .You could extrapolate from there , Clive Waddington goes as far as suggesting Mesolithic , without any evidence though .

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CianMcLiam Oct 21, 2007 16:07:43
Replying to tiompan

Bugger, I have the worst luck with email accounts, try [email protected] and I'll attempt to sift through the mountains of junk :)

There's something about that in Susan Johnston's paper on Irish rock art in comparisson to megalithic art, I'll have to dig that out and refresh my memory but I think it was due to the significant weathering of petroglyphs used as capstones for bronze age cists, implying they had been exposed for a long period before the bronze age cist was constructed. Makes sense. There's a particularly spectacular one from Ballinvally, near Loughcrew that is in the national museum but unfortunately is not on display, it looks from photos as though it is weathered but not by a huge amount. It's not typical cup and rings though but maybe there are more typical designs found in that context.