Boar Fence from Wakimachi Town

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Replica of a wall in Wakimachi, Mima, Tokushima Prefecture

A dual-purpose wall to capture and keep boars from entering fields

This stone wall was intended to keep boars and other animals from damaging fields. This is a replica of a piled stone wall from the mountains of Wakimachi, Tokushima Prefecture, and was designed with a gap and pit-trap to catch boars and deer.