Kotehashi Shell Mound
犢橋貝塚
Explore a large, horseshoe-shaped Jomon period settlement, a designated National Historic Site.
What it is
- A Jomon period settlement site.
- Designated a National Historic Site in 1981.
- Its existence was known since the Meiji era.
- Full-scale excavation began in the 1940s.
What to see
- A large settlement site.
- A shell layer in a horseshoe shape.
- Shell layer is 200m east-west and 150m north-south.
- Site is on a plateau about 25m above sea level.
- Now Kotehashi Shell Mound Park.
Notes written by Japan Gems from facts in Japanese Wikipedia.
Where it is
Kotehashi Shell Mound Open in Google Maps
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