Iwabitsuyama ruins

Japanese: 岩櫃山遺跡 - いわびつやまいせき

A Yayoi period graveyard located in the shade of rocks near the summit of Mt. Iwabitsu, 802m above sea level, in Haramachi, Agatsuma-machi, Agatsuma-gun, Gunma Prefecture. It was excavated by Sugihara Sosuke and others in 1939. It is a steep mountain with a height of about 400m on the north bank of the Agatsuma River, and there are many rock shelters and semi-caves. In the shade of Takanosu rock, 19 pieces of pottery were buried in three groups in a rock bed of about 100m2, and one piece of pottery was placed in each of two locations. Near the pottery groups, there were more than two human bones of men and women. Although no human bone fragments were found in the pottery, an excavation of the Tenjinmae site in Chiba Prefecture after World War II revealed that the pottery served as a bone container, and that this type of site was a special burial site that characterized the early Yayoi period in eastern Japan as a reburial tomb.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

群馬県吾妻郡吾妻町原町にある標高802mの岩櫃山山頂近くの岩陰を利用した弥生時代の墓地。1939年に杉原荘介らによって発掘調査された。吾妻川の北岸にある比高約400mの険しい山で，諸所に岩陰や半洞窟が見られる。そのなかの鷹ノ巣岩陰では，100m2ほどの広さの岩床に19個の土器が3群にわけて埋置され，また2ヵ所に各1個ずつの土器がおかれていた。土器群の近くには，男女の人骨が2個体以上あった。土器中からは人骨片は発見されていないが，第2次大戦後になって千葉県天神前遺跡の調査例から，土器は容骨器の役目をはたし，この種遺跡が再葬墓という東日本の初期弥生時代を特色づける特殊な埋葬遺跡であることがわかった。

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