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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Isezuka Kofun Alternative Name: 伊勢塚古墳Country: Japan
NOTE: This site is 9.612 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Honshū Type: Passage Grave
Nearest Town: Fujioka (Gunma pref.) Nearest Village: KamiOchiai 上落合
Latitude: 36.265530N Longitude: 139.039990E
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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Passage Grave in Honshū. This burial mound looks like an ordinary round (exactly octagonal pyramid) tumulus, but its insides contain an unparalleled aesthetic pattern of stone walls.
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1.7km NW 320° Yama-no-Ue Kofun* Passage Grave
6.1km WSW 248° Ipponsugi Kofun* Passage Grave
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30.5km WNW 289° Sakamoto-Kitaura* Stone Circle
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43.3km W 278° Mozawa Minami-Ishidō* Stone Circle
43.7km SE 141° Ōrui Kofungun* Chambered Cairn
48.2km N 354° Yaze* Ancient Village or Settlement
48.3km SSE 148° Shōden-in temple* Modern Stone Circle etc
51.1km SSE 152° Nōnin-ji temple* Modern Stone Circle etc
51.8km WSW 258° Kitazawa* Standing Stone (Menhir)
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