Cultural Properties

One of the Yayoi-period mountain settlements where Iron-Age culture was adopted before the territories around Kyoto. Covering an expansive 40 ha, and yielding finds including a fragment of a Chinese mirror, this large settlement is believed to have played a key role among the hilltop settlements. The discovery of salt-making earthenware and ocellated octopus pots tells us that there was a relationship between the mountain settlements and the Umi-no-tami.