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Mawatari Haniwa Production Ruins

Hitachinaka, Japan

The Mawatari Haniwa Production Site (, Mawatari haniwa seisaku iseki) is an archaeological site with the ruins of a Kofun period factory for the production of haniwa clay funerary ceramics, located in what is now the city of Hitachinaka in Ibaraki Prefecture in the northern Kantō region of Japan. It received protection as a National Historic Site in 1969, with the area under protection expanded in 1975.

Archaeological site data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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