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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Keikaen Alternative Name: 景華園Country: Japan Region: Kyūshū Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Shimabara (Nagasaki pref.) Nearest Village: Nakano-machi 中野町
Latitude: 32.826110N Longitude: 130.351070E
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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Burial Chamber (Dolmen) in Kyūshū
Keikaen was a villa for the lord of Shimabara clan. During the construction, some bronze shards were found under the huge stones. These stones might not be dolmens but a marking stone on a burial mound like at the Sugu-Okanmoto site.
2 of the stones were moved into the garden of the Shimabara Castle and only 1 remains in situ.
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