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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Sedo-oka Kofungun Alternative Name: 瀬戸岡古墳群 Sedooka KofungunCountry: Japan
NOTE: This site is 4.299 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Honshū Type: Chambered Cairn
Nearest Town: Akiruno (Tōkyō pref.) Nearest Village: Sedooka 瀬戸岡
Latitude: 35.740130N Longitude: 139.287280E
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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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 |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Chambered Cairn in Honshū
40 chambered cairns were discovered in the western suburb of Tokyo. A few of them were reconstructed in a preserved wood surrounded by a fence. Cairn no.32 was moved and is now preserved, mislabeled as cairn no.1, in Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum (江戸東京たてもの園 Edo Tōkyō Tatemono-en 35.71661N,139.51105E) along with modern and wooden architectures.
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