THE DIGITAL BURIAL MOUND ENCYCLOPEDIA

NAGATSUKA TUMULUS

Location

Mozusekiun-cho 2, Sakai City

NAGATSUKA TUMULUS


It is a keyhole-shaped burial mound turning its rectangular part, in the southwest direction of Mozu Station, JR Hanwa Line, to the west. The two staged mound is about 102 meters long, the round part about 57 meters long and 8.2 meters high, the rectangular part about 67 meters wide and 8.3 meters high. There is tsukuridashi at the narrow part of the south side of the mound. The moat around it had already been buried under the ground, so the mound is surrounded by houses now. A cylindrical clay figure was found but the structure of the main part of the mound is unknown and no possessions buried together with the dead has been found.