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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Futagozuka Kofun (in Nagano) Alternative Name: 双子塚古墳Country: Japan
NOTE: This site is 3.438 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Honshū Type: Chambered Cairn
Nearest Town: Nagano (Nagano pref.) Nearest Village: Hirashiba 平柴
Latitude: 36.652200N Longitude: 138.169170E
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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 |
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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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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 |
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A round tumulus-cairn hybrid, i.e. mound made of earth and rocks, in the back yard of Kasuga Jinja (春日神社) shrine at the dead end of a branch path on the way to Yoshimizu Kofun.
These kind of hybrid mounds can be found in Hirashiba upland village overlooking the heart of Nagano city, this one has 2 chambers in 1 mound. "Futago-zuka" means 'twin-mound'.
Other hybrid mounds: Kyōzuka Kofun (きょう塚古墳) 36.64614N,138.17068E Mirokuji Kofun (弥勒寺古墳) 36.64925N,138.16740E Mumyōzuka Kofun (無名塚古墳) aka Ōzuka Kofun (王塚古墳) 36.65195N,138.16730E Daikokuyamazuka Kofun (大黒山塚古墳) 36.65210N,138.17125E Nishiike Kofun (西池古墳) on a slope in the wood, exact position unknown
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