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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Kawakami Jinja Kofun Alternative Name: 川上神社古墳Country: Japan
NOTE: This site is 15.71 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Shikoku Type: Passage Grave
Nearest Town: Tōon (Ehime pref.) Nearest Village: Minamigata 南方
Latitude: 33.800210N Longitude: 132.913970E
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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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 |
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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 |
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rrmoser visited on 30th Apr 2018 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4 Fantastic site. The chamber is constructed from huge megaliths unlike other sites I visited in the region that used many smaller stones done in a kind of dry masonry. the back wall is a single stone for example. It is very dark and you need a light. I only found one chamber.
Behind the building of Kawakami Jinja (川上神社) shrine, this tumulus with 2 chambers is located. From this tumulus, several harness were excavated. The mound was preserved as the holy wood for a long time, the trees grew too large, one of the entrances of the chambers is buried and the original shape of the tumulus is now uncertain, some scholars suspect it might be ... : rectangle, oval or double round (gourd) shaped.
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