Kakuriyama ruins

Japanese: 加栗山遺跡 - かくりやまいせき

This site is located in Kakuriyama, Kawakami-cho, Kagoshima City. Pre-Pottery and early Jomon period ruins and a medieval mountain castle are stacked on top of each other with layers of volcanic ash between them. It is located 7km north of Kagoshima City, on a tongue-shaped plateau with a height of 80m overlooking a tributary of the Kotsuki River. Excavations by the Kagoshima Prefectural Board of Education in 1975 and 1976 uncovered three sections of medieval castle ruins on the top of the plateau measuring 70m east to west and 150m north to south, and below that, early Jomon period ruins with 17 pit dwellings, numerous pits and stone collection remains were discovered. There are five layers of intermediate layers below the Jomon period ruins, and below that, 38 groups of stone tools including microliths, large stone dish-shaped processing tables and stone hammers were found all over the plateau.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

鹿児島市川上町加栗山にある遺跡。先土器時代と縄文時代早期の遺跡，中世山城が，それぞれ火山灰の間層を置いて重なっている。鹿児島市の北7km，甲突川の支流にのぞむ比高80mの舌状台地上にある。1975,76年の鹿児島県教育委員会の発掘で，台地上東西70m×南北150mの上面に3区画の中世城跡，その下から17基の竪穴住居，多数の土壙や集石遺構を伴う縄文時代早期の遺跡が検出された。縄文時代遺跡の下に5層の間層があってその下から細石器と大きな石皿状の加工台や石槌を伴う38ヵ所の石器の群が台地全面にみられた。

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