Ōshima Hatakeda Site
Archaeological site in Japan
The Ōshima Hatakeda Site (大島畠田遺跡, Ōshima Hatakeda iseki) is an archaeological site with the traces of a Heian period settlement, located in what is now the Kaneda neighborhood of the city of Miyakonojō, Miyazaki Prefecture in Kyushu, Japan. It was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 2002, with the area under protection expanded in 2004.
Overview
The Ōshima Hatakeda Site was discovered in 1994 during a field development project on a slightly elevated area of alluvial land near the confluence of the Ōyodo and Shonai rivers, approximately in the center of the Miyakonojō basin. The elevation is around 133 meters, and the difference in height from the floodplain of the Ōyodo River to the west is about 1.5 meters.
The confirmed area of the site is roughly 65 meters from north to south and 60 meters east to west. At the northern end of a slightly elevated area with a slope descending from north to south, there was a very large building with dug pillar foundations at a higher point than the surrounding area, and to the south of that was the remains of a pond-like structure, and the southern end of the site was divided by a gate, a row of fences, and a dividing ditch. To the east of the site is a natural depression measuring 45 meters north–south, 30 meters east–west, and 1.4 meters deep. The remains exist parallel to this depression, and since there are no remains that cross the depression, it is clear that this depression formed a boundary on the east side. The western edge of the site has been leveled and is unclear, but it appears that it did not extend very far to the west. The northern end of the site has not been clearly defined in archaeological excavations.
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