A small cluster in Kanmaki, west of the Umami hills, used from the emergence period into Asuka times. The recommendation for its designation as a National Historic Site called it extremely important for considering the power relations among groups when the Yamato polity was forming (Kanmaki Town).
Finds & research
From Mound 3: pictorial-band deity-and-beast mirror with ring-shaped bosses, iron spear, sword, arrowheads, Haji ware (Nara Prefectural Tangible Cultural Properties).
Official status & archaeological view
Official status
National Historic Site (2015).
Archaeological view
A group of eight mounds (one keyhole, six round, one square). Mound 3, about 15m per side and built in the mid-3rd century, had three assembled wooden coffins; the one at the centre of the mound yielded a pictorial-band deity-and-beast mirror with ring-shaped bosses, an iron spear, a sword, arrowheads and more. Construction in the group continued into the 7th century.