Nakatakita Site
| Address | Nakada-cho, Higashi-ku, Hamamatsu-shi |
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| Time | Yayoi to Kamakura periods |
Overview
The Nakatakita Site is presumed to be a general settlement ruin in area of Nakata-cho to Koike-cho occupied from the Yayoi to Kamakura periods. The site especially contains many of artifacts dated to the Nara period. A large amount of holes and ditches supposed to be used as pole-holes for houses, and ruins of water wells were found. The four-meter wide moat, located in the south of the settlement, yielded many pottery and ritual implements.
The site showed a remarkable rare evidence of a rite held for cerebration of a well construction by excavated items from its ruin such as small pottery, touma (horse figures), sube ware (a kind of stoneware), and tsurube-oke (well buckets). In addition, bowls, plates, pots, and bottles made in Kosai and Atsumi area, and Chinese white and blue porcelains were unearth from its wells. These Chinese porcelains are especially important since not many of them are found in the eastern provinces.
It also revealed an outer moat, which has 4m in width and 40m in depth, of a residence belonging to the Kamakura period.
Reference
"Hamamatsu no Iseki 2"(Archaeological Sites of Hamamatsu 2)