Category:

Municipally Designated Tangible Cultural Property (Archaeological artifact)

Title:

Inumakata iseki hokeishukobo shutsudohin

Artifacts Excavated From a Rectangular, Moated Tomb in the Inumakata Archaeological Site

井沼方遺跡方形周溝墓出土品

No. of features:

- Iron sword: one piece

- Glass beads: 12 pieces

- Pot-shaped earthenware: 5 pieces

- Stemmed earthenware cooking pots: 2 pieces

- Fragments of a stemmed earthenware cooking pot: one pot’s worth

- Earthenware lipped bowl: one piece

- Agate magatama bead: one piece

Designated:

March 31, 1997

Location:

In the custody of The Museum of Earthenware　
2-305-4 Takahanacho, Omiya Ward

Owner:

Saitama City

Description:

From the late Yayoi period (300 BCE-300 CE). These items were found in the main structure and surrounding moat of a rectangular, moated tomb during an excavation in 1992. They show us what a typical burial of the period looked like.

Associated Texts:

(1998). “Survey Report on Urawa City’s Cultural Properties” (vol. 42). Urawa Municipal Board of Education.

(1994). “Urawa City’s Top 100 Excavated Artifacts”. Urawa Municipal Board of Education.

(1994). “Report on Urawa City’s Archaeological Sites” (vol. 185). Urawa City Archaeological Research Society.

This cultural artifact is not always on public display. Please seek permission from its owners/curators before viewing. Please be courteous towards other visitors and the site’s owners/curators when visiting this cultural property.

Inquiries (Japanese only)

Cultural Heritage Preservation Division, Department of Lifelong Learning, Board of Education Secretariat　

TEL：048-829-1723 FAX：048-829-1989

https://www.city.saitama.jp/004/005/006/001/017/013/003/p000395.html