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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Goshikizuka Kofun Alternative Name: 五色塚古墳Country: Japan
NOTE: This site is 7.827 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Honshū Type: Long Barrow
Nearest Town: Kōbe (Hyōgo pref.) Nearest Village: Goshikyama 五色山
Latitude: 34.629900N Longitude: 135.046050E
Condition:
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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 |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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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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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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The 39th greatest (194m × 125m) key-hole shaped tumulus in Japan. Partly destroyed by rail road construction, from 1965 to 1975, this largest tumulus in Hyōgo prefecture was reconstructed with stone pavement as it had been built at the end of the 4th century.
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