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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Kumayama Iseki Alternative Name: 熊山遺跡Country: Japan Region: Honshū Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Nearest Town: Akaiwa (Okayama pref.) Nearest Village: Seiriki 勢力
Latitude: 34.753831N Longitude: 134.120965E
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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Pyramid in Honshū. Although it looks like a Mesoamerican pyramid, a Buddist doctrine scroll in a pottery tube was found inside. The scroll was lost but the tube is in the collection of the Tenri Sankōkan (天理参考館) museum in Nara prefecture. This was a 'prototype' for the Buddhist pagoda. More than 30 similar monuments were found around Kumayama mountain, most of them are hidden in deep forest.
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