<< Our Photo Pages >> Kajikurihama - Cist in Japan in Honshū
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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Kajikurihama Alternative Name: 梶栗浜Country: Japan
NOTE: This site is 15.76 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Honshū Type: Cist
Nearest Town: Shimonoseki (Yamaguchi pref.) Nearest Village: Kajikurichō 梶栗町
Latitude: 34.016210N Longitude: 130.923050E
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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During the construction of a railroad, some burial monuments were discovered with a bronze mirror and bronze swords from the Korean Peninsula.
The burial monuments were accompanied by menhirs and cairns but now only one cist is preserved on a grandiose base.
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