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<< Our Photo Pages >> Ōrui Kofungun - Chambered Cairn in Japan in Honshū

Submitted by Aska on Saturday, 07 April 2018  Page Views: 897

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Ōrui Kofungun Alternative Name: 大類古墳群 Orui Kofungun
Country: Japan
NOTE: This site is 4.363 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Honshū Type: Chambered Cairn
Nearest Town: Moroyama-machi (Saitama pref.)  Nearest Village: Ōrui 大類
Latitude: 35.959960N  Longitude: 139.345750E
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
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data 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.
5 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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Ōrui Kofungun submitted by Aska : Site in Honshū Japan (Vote or comment on this photo)
Chambered Cairn in Honshū

In a triangle-shaped agricultural field, there lies a huge and a small cairn. The stones which constitute these cairns are much smaller (=pebble) than that of other chambered cairns (= skull-size). These cairns seem like the pile of pebbles dug out from the field.
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