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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Washi-no-ki Alternative Name: 鷲ノ木Country: Japan
NOTE: This site is 2.697 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Hokkaidō Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Mori-machi (Hokkaidō prefecture) Nearest Village: Washinoki-chō 鷲ノĈ
Latitude: 42.116100N Longitude: 140.526250E
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 |
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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 |
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 |
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A great (approx.35m diameter) stone circle discovered during a road construction under a layer of volcanic ash in 2003. The site was saved by the construction of a tunnel, but due to that fact was prohibited to be registered as regular entry of Jōmon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan – a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The site is surrounded by a fence and only open on only few designated days to participants of visiting tours organized by the Mori-machi town office. Official site of town office in Japanese (鷲ノ木遺跡見学会 = visiting tour of Washi-no-ki site).
The excavation of the area around the circle was achieved during 2003-04, lower terrace area digging project continued during 2006-2015.
The central gray line of the circle photo is the preservation-cover of later vegetational soil surface (thick layer of much later volcanic ashes from neighbouring mountain over it were removed), and under the several blue coverings there are rain-fall measuring equipments which alarm the peril of landslides because the site only 2.5m depth over the motorway tunnel has been only preserved.
Now howling robot-wolves has been installed around the site and some of them are placed on a self-propelled cart. See comments section below for more.
Note: Aska visited the Washi-no-ki excavations on a recent open day
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