真福寺貝塚

Appears in a quiet residential area. Although it was designated as a national historical site around 1975, it is almost abandoned. We mow a few times a year, but weeds are always extended.

There is a sign, but there is no parking lot or highlights. The grass covers in the summer. He cuts the grass from time to time. I would like you to make it a park so that you can visit it. From a broader perspective, it certainly looks like a beach in the past.

At present, there are only pillars that show the ruins, and I can only imagine it, but I think it would be good if it could be maintained as a park.

It was a shell mound, but the grass was overgrown and I couldn't see any shells. However, there were many pieces of earthenware on the edge of the nearby field, so I could feel the ruins there.

I knew about the designation of the country, but I understood that it was a valuable archaeological site. I was wondering because the subsidies of the land acquisition country were large.

I knew the name, but I didn't know it here. I passed by every day, but I thought it was just a vacant lot. Saitama City, especially the former Iwatsuki City, is not good at using historic sites.

The remains of the shell mound in Iwatsuki Ward, Saitama City. It remains in the middle of the residential area, but at first glance it looks like a vacant lot because there is no parking lot and the commentary board stands out. However, it is a place where the activities of the Jomon people certainly remain, such as the discovery of a famous Mizuku clay figurine from this shell mound. Since it is designated as a national historic site, I hope it will be improved a little more.

It is a shell mound from the late Jomon period to the late Jomon period designated as a national historic site. It seems to be about 3000 years ago, so it's about the same time as the Egyptian pyramids were built (very rough). At the time of the visit, there is a grass bobo, and only one stone monument shows the shell mound. Apparently, the excavation is still ongoing, and the trenches are covered with blue sheets in places. From the shell mound here, a nationally designated Important Cultural Property Mizuku clay figurine was excavated. In addition to this, Mizuku clay figurines have been excavated at multiple Jomon archaeological sites and shell mounds in the southern Kanto region, such as the Bamuro site in Konosu city, the Sageto shell mound in Abiko city, Chiba prefecture, and the Yoyama shell mound in Choshi city. This is Dogu-chan. By the way, it is such a Shinfukuji shell mound, but what will happen in the future when the excavation survey is completed? There was a survey material on the Saitama City website called "Historic Site Shinfukuji Shell Mound Preservation and Utilization Plan" created in 2015. It is a masterpiece with a total of 76 pages and 126 pages including the attached table. According to this report, as the "issue" of "utilization", "the site of the historic site is in an undeveloped state, and it is necessary to make effective utilization immediately in the future." In the "Issues" of the "Maintenance" that follows, "Maintenance for utilization that makes the best use of the characteristics of the ruins is necessary." As far as the title of this report is concerned, isn't this the subject? What on earth is written on the remaining 125 pages? I feel like I'm looking into the deep darkness of government office work. Well, I'm not paying taxes to Saitama City, so I can't help but get angry there. Besides, Saitama City may still be conscientious. After all, the website of Saitama City uploads the survey status of Shinfukuji shell mound in diary format in real time. If you look at the contents, you can see the enthusiastic excavation scenery of the people in the field, such as "Survey team that is thrilled by new excavated items" and "Survey team that suffers from spring water". I wonder if I can volunteer as a research team while my body is moving. However, there are still about 1000 places I want to go to in Kanto alone ...