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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Imami Kofungun Alternative Name: 今見古墳群Country: Japan
NOTE: This site is 12.384 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Honshū Type: Passage Grave
Nearest Town: Niimi (Okayama pref.) Nearest Village: Shōden 正田
Latitude: 34.967860N Longitude: 133.480610E
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 |
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Barrow Cemetery in Honshū
On the roadside of a narrow road towards the mountain, 2 tumuli (no.10 & no.11) are preserved in a park called Imami Kofun Kōen (=Imami Tumuli Park 今見古墳公園). The tumuli group consists of 16 mounds, it seems the other mounds including no.5, a chambered cairn, are hidden in the wood near by.
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