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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Sugu-Okamoto Alternative Name: 須玖岡本遺跡Country: Japan
NOTE: This site is 1.91 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Kyūshū Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Kasuga (Fukuoka pref.) Nearest Village: Okamoto 岡本
Latitude: 33.538360N Longitude: 130.450790E
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 |
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Burial Chamber (Dolmen) in Japan
A huge cap-stone found at Sugu-
Okamoto burial ruin was moved to the Nakoku-no-oka Rekishi-kōen (=historical park). This huge rock has been believed as the cap stone of a dolmen, recently considered to be a landmark on a burial mound. There is a museum nearby.
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