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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Shōge Kofungun Alternative Name: 正家古墳群 Shoge KofungunCountry: Japan Region: Honshū Type: Chambered Cairn
Nearest Town: Ena (Gifu pref) Nearest Village: Osashimachō-Shōge 長
Latitude: 35.435540N Longitude: 137.415760E
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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Chambered Cairn in Honshū
On the slope of a mountain, where Nabeyama pair menhirs stand, there lie 13 chambered cairns:
southern group (cairns nos.1-5);
northern group (cairns nos.6-11);
western solitary cairn no.12; and
westernmost wayside no.13.
The artifacts discovered by the excavation in 1976 were medieval coins and flint steel, so scholars suspect that these cairns are not prehistoric burial mounds but medieval Buddhist sutra mounds.
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