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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Nihongaya Kofungun Alternative Name: 二本ヶ谷古墳群
Country: Japan
NOTE: This site is 9.563 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Honshū Type: Chambered Cairn
Nearest Town: Hamamatsu (Shizuoka pref.)  Nearest Village: Somejidai 染地台
Latitude: 34.794880N  Longitude: 137.751830E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Nihongaya Kofungun
Nihongaya Kofungun submitted by Aska : Site in Honshu Japan. Cairn no.8 in typical square shape (Vote or comment on this photo)
One and only chambered cairn group in Shizuoka Prefecture.

Only 6 replicas of 29 discovered cairns can be seen in an isolated parc with a pond surrounded by a vast boom town during whose development much of the cairns destroyed.
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Nihongaya Kofungun
Nihongaya Kofungun submitted by Aska : Site in Honshu Japan. Cairn no.18 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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