Fujisaki Horigome Shell Mounds - Narashino

A horseshoe shell mound from the late Jomon period. Earthenware, stone tools, and animal bones have also been excavated from the shell layer. Also, since relics from the middle period have been excavated from around the shell mound, it is believed that people have lived there since the middle of the Jomon period.

It is a peaceful place with a big tree in the middle of the field. There is also an explanation board, a place that you want to leave for posterity. I'm looking forward to going to various seasons.

I don't know if Kaizuka is not told, but it sprouted to Fujizuka, the center of it.

I was near my house and wanted to try it. It is under a large tree and the shells are scattered. Is shellfish scattered in the field, and thanks to shellfish calcium? While thinking, I was quietly thinking during the Jomon period.

What should I do to reach this ruin, which is located in the middle of the farmland above the plateau? I was glad to walk, but there is no place to park a car on the farm road. In addition, even if you approach a big tree as a landmark, there is a sign saying "Because it's private land, don't get in it." In the end, I was able to find and reach a narrow path from the farm road to the torii gate of the shrine on the shell mound, where it would not be necessary to trampler the fields. However, it might have been scolded if there was an owner of the field. It is a troublesome ruin. When I come to see it, it is better to say that it is Fujizuka, which shows the mountain worship of modern times, than Kaizuka. Although it feels like a shell mound on such a plateau, it seems that during the transgression of the Jomon period, this area was a small peninsula protruding into the Old Tokyo Bay. And it was probably a shallow sea). I quote the explanatory signboard of the Narashino City Board of Education. ----------------- from here ---------------- Chiba Prefecture designated historic site Fujisaki Horigome Kaizuka Designated March 7, 1942, mid to late Sōbun period Fujisakibori Yonegaizuka is a ruins of the middle to late Jomon period (about 4,500 to 3,000 years ago in the radiocarbon age), and it is a trace of a large-scale shell mound and village. The earth where the ruins are located is about 20 m above sea level, and faces the valley cut by the Kikuta River and its tributaries. When the shell mound was built, the sea entered to some extent. It is believed that This shell mound was created by people in the late Jomon period, who discarded a large amount of shells, fish bones and animal bones after eating. The range of shellfish distribution is about 110 meters north-south and about 80 meters east-west, and it has a horseshoe shape with an open west. The pit dwellings from the middle to the late Jomon period were also found in the area where shellfish are not visible, and it can be seen that this area has been a place of living for a long time. Kaizuka is a very important source of information for the rabbits to know their past life such as eating habits, because various things used by people at that time are left behind and the state of remains of moving substances is good. In the previous surveys, in addition to shellfish such as Ibokisago, clams, clams, fish bones such as horse mackerel, mackerel, and sardine, animal bones such as sika deer, which were considered edible, Jomon earthenware and stone tools (punched stone axe, polished stone) Tools such as stone axes, stones, stone plates, and stone gems have been excavated. Fujisaki Higashi Kaizuka is a valuable archaeological site that remains in the urban area without damage to most of the Kaizuka, and is very important for clarifying the lives of people in the Jomon period and the history of this area. is.

No "parking lot". About 5 minutes walk from the nearby forest park parking lot. The area is a field, but only here is overgrown with trees like the commercial of "This ~ Tree What Tree". When I passed through the torii gate, the wind blew out of nowhere, and even I, who was insensitive, felt the power of ancient times. Fujizuka is in the center of the trees and is a power spot. People have lived there since the Jomon period and it has become a shell mound. Even now, the ground is full of shells ... Sometimes even pieces of Jomon pottery have fallen. This is a little elevated place, and it is a mysterious place where you can see the skyscrapers of Makuhari below.

Fujisaki Horikome Shell Mound. A world trapped in a big tree. As you pass through the torii gate, you will receive a pleasant breeze from your back.

There is a small forest in the middle of the field, which is Fujisaki Horigome Kaizuka. If you look at something like this, you will remember it. It doesn't matter. In the past, it was a valley, or it was the sea until here. Speaking of which, Kaizuka and such ruins are images that are only on the coastline in Japan. I wonder if it used to be inland or mountainous in the past. I'm doing civilization, so I'm thinking about how to develop it now.