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Rock ArtSite Name: Yama-no-kami carving Alternative Name: 山ノ神線刻画Country: Japan Region: Kyūshū Type: Carving
Nearest Town: Iki island (Nagasaki prefecture) Nearest Village: Gōnoura-chō Shinden-fure ų
Latitude: 33.806880N Longitude: 129.659190E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Rock Art in Kyūshū
In a bush on the edge of an agricultural field, some rocks are rolling. They seems to have been the fragments of a removed tumulus. It is rumoured that one of them has engravings of ships with oars, but vines on them prevent from recognizing them.
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