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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Rai Row YapCountry: Pacific Islands
NOTE: This site is 447.292 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Village: Magachgil
Latitude: 9.447594N Longitude: 138.058578E
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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Stone Row / Alignment in Pacific Islands
A row of large Rai stones (ancient "stone money" of the Yap culture) . The Rai stones consists of large stone disks with a hole in the centre, the largest ones have a diameter of 4 meters. The chieftains of the Yap tribes used this stone disks for the representation of their power. The stone disks could be found in various places on the island of Yap.
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