Tateiwa ruins - Tateiwa ruins

A collective term for a group of ruins from the early to middle Yayoi period located in the hills of Tateiwa, Iizuka City, Fukuoka Prefecture. It has long been famous for the existence of the Municipal Ground Ruins, known for the discovery of grave goods such as human bones wearing shell rings and iron swords from a jar burial tomb excavated in 1933 (Showa 8), and the Shimokata Ruins, which are known for the concentrated production of stone knives made from diabase tuff distributed throughout the northern half of Kyushu. In particular, the Hotta Ruins, where numerous jar burial tombs were discovered and investigated during soil mining work in 1963 and 1965 (Showa 38 and 40), occupy the center of the Tateiwa Ruins. Here, 24 burial holes (storage holes) belonging to the first half of the middle period and 39 jar burial tombs mainly from the second half of the middle period were investigated, and many grave goods were excavated, including mirrors from the early Han Dynasty, thin bronze spears, iron swords, iron spears, iron halberds, and glass tubular beads. In particular, six early Han mirrors, one thin bronze spear, one iron sword, and one iron halberd were buried in the No. 10 jar burial tomb. The significance of the Tateiwa site is great, as it reveals the status of the buried in Yayoi society, known from the Hotta site, and the social division of labor seen in the production of stone knives at the Shimokata site.

[Hiroaki Takakura]

"Tateiwa Ruins Research Committee, ed. "Tateiwa Ruins" (1977, Kawade Shobo Shinsha)"

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福岡県飯塚(いいづか)市大字立岩の丘陵一帯に所在する弥生(やよい)時代前期から中期の遺跡群の総称。1933年（昭和8）に調査された甕棺墓(かめかんぼ)内から貝輪(かいわ)着装の人骨や鉄剣などの副葬遺物の出土で知られる市営グランド遺跡、九州北半一円に分布圏をもつ輝緑凝灰岩製石包丁を集中生産した下(しも)の方(かた)遺跡などの存在から以前より著名であった。ことに1963、1965年（昭和38、40）に採土工事に伴って多数の甕棺墓が発見され調査の実施された堀田遺跡は、立岩遺跡群の中心を占めている。ここでは中期前半に属する24個の袋状竪穴(たてあな)（貯蔵穴）と中期後半を主体とする39基の甕棺墓とが調査され、前漢鏡、細形銅矛(どうほこ)、鉄剣、鉄矛(てつほこ)、鉄戈(てっか)、ガラス製管玉(くだたま)など多数の副葬品が出土した。なかでも10号甕棺墓には前漢鏡6、細形銅矛1、鉄剣1、鉄鉇(やりがんな)一などが集中して副葬されていた。このように堀田遺跡で知られる弥生時代社会の被葬者の地位、あるいは下の方遺跡の石包丁生産にみられる社会的分業など、立岩遺跡の示す意義は大きい。

［高倉洋彰］

『立岩遺跡調査会編『立岩遺跡』（1977・河出書房新社）』

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