Cat Mountain Ruins - Nekoyamaiseki

Japanese: 猫山遺跡 - ねこやまいせき

A cemetery from the early Yayoi period located in Oyanai, Nekoyama, Kyogase Village, Kitakanbara County, Niigata Prefecture. The site is located on a 6m-high natural levee formed by a tributary on the right bank of the Agano River. In 1958, a group of pottery vessels was discovered standing upright during land reclamation work. They were thought to be coffins buried in pits and were determined to be reburial graves. The coffins included a long-bodied jar 50-60cm high covered with a plate or shallow bowl, and two deep bowls with a jointed opening. No bones or other remains were found inside the pottery, but pieces of chert and hard shale, as well as rounded pebbles and stone fragments, were found. It is believed that the former were grave goods and the latter two covered the jar coffins.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

新潟県北蒲原郡京ヶ瀬村猫山字大谷内にある弥生時代初頭の墓地。遺跡は阿賀野川右岸の支流が形成した標高6mの自然堤防上に立地している。1958年，開田工事中に土器群が直立して発見され，それらは土壙内に埋置していた棺とみられ，再葬墓であったと判断された。棺は，高さ50～60cmの胴の長い壺に皿や浅鉢でふたをしたものや，深鉢2個体を合せ口としたものなどがあった。土器内に骨などは遺存しないが，チャートや硬質ケツ岩の剝片，それに円礫（えんれき）や石片が発見されており，前者は副葬品であり，後2者は壺棺を覆っていたものと推定されている。

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