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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Tokutan-jō Alternative Name: Tokutan Castle 徳丹城 Tokutan-jo Tokutan-no-kiCountry: Japan
NOTE: This site is 3.827 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Honshū Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Yahaba-chō (Iwate prefecture) Nearest Village: Nishi-Tokuta 西徳田
Latitude: 39.607720N Longitude: 141.171830E
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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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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Ancient Village or Settlement in Honshū. In 811 CE, this defensive fortress against Emishi tribe was constructed by Yamato (present day Nara) court as the substitute for Shiwa-jō which was damaged by flood. But the scale was reduced (350m×350m) then the deployed troops were withdrew and at last this latest “jōsaku” (Jō’ means ‘castle’, Saku means ‘fence’) fortress seemed to be abandoned in mid 9th C. It implies the end of Yamato court’s northward policy.
Now only small posts and shrubbery are placed on the traces of pillar of the buildings in the meadow between the playground of a scholl and small wood of a Shintō shrine. A wooden armour-helmet was excavated here and is exhibited in the museum attached.
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