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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Wada Kofungun Alternative Name: 和田古墳群Country: Japan
NOTE: This site is 1.519 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Honshū Type: Passage Grave
Nearest Town: Rittō (Shiga pref.) Nearest Village: Shimodoyama 下戸山
Latitude: 35.012790N Longitude: 135.994130E
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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7 of 9 tumuli are preserved in a historical park attached to Rittō-shiritsu Shutsudo Bunkazai Sentā (栗東市立出土文化財センター = Rittō City Excavated Artifacts Centre). Most of them are round tumuli, tumulus no.5 is oval-shaped.
Open 9:30-17:00, closed on Saturday,Sunday,days around the new years day, reservation required. The Centre once had an museum facility and exhibited a reconstructed stone circle called Tsuji Iseki (辻遺跡) but now closed to public.
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