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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Tsubodaira Alternative Name: 坪平遺跡, ドルメン類似遺跡 Dorumen Ruiji IsekiCountry: Japan Region: Honshū Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Fujimi-machi (Nagano pref.) Nearest Village: Tatsuzawa 立沢
Latitude: 35.930000N Longitude: 138.262327E
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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Burial Chamber (Dolmen) in japan
Burial cists with cap stones. Although not related to the Korean-origin dolmen in Kyūshū island far away, a dolmen-mania archaeologist Dr. Ryūzō Torii, made his own tombstone in a dolmen-shape, and named this site "Dorumen Ruiji Iseki (=dolmen-like ruin).
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