A round mound on the spur projecting northwest from Mukaiyama at Ibaraki, Hidaka. Weapons were placed in the coffin by the back wall, and Wakayama Prefecture takes the occupants to be a man at the back and a woman in front.
Finds & research
Double-sleeved horizontal stone chamber of sandstone (~4.7m) holding two cist coffins that share a central crystalline-schist wall.
Official status & archaeological view
Official status
Wakayama Prefectural Historic Site.
Archaeological view
A round mound on the ~30m spur running northwest from Mukaiyama (Mound 4 of the Mukaiyama Kofun Group), with a double-sleeved horizontal stone chamber (~4.7m) holding two cist coffins that share a central crystalline-schist wall.
Field notes
On the spur projecting northwest from Mukaiyama; Mukaiyama Kofun↗ is near the summit.