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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Ōrui Kofungun Alternative Name: 大類古墳群 Orui KofungunCountry: 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:
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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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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