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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Nishidani Funbogun Alternative Name: 西谷墳墓群Country: Japan
NOTE: This site is 2.525 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Honshū Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Izumo (Shimane pref.) Nearest Village: Ōtsu-chō 大津
Latitude: 35.359400N Longitude: 132.779220E
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 |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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In a wood near the heart of Izumo city which preserved as a historical park with a museum called "Izumo Yayoi-no Mori (出雲弥生の森)", along with rock cut tombs and round or square tumuli, a group of proto-tumulus burial mounds in stool-shape, which are characteristic ruins of West Honshū coastal area of the Japan Sea (= the East Sea in Korean text), lie in a line.
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