Ancient Tombs in Yugok-ri and Durak-ri, Namwon

Forty mounds follow the ridge coming down west from Yeonbisan, built in the late fifth and early sixth centuries. This is the furthest inland any Gaya cemetery reaches — over the main watershed, in the Seomjin valley rather than the Nakdong — and it is the evidence that Gaya was not confined to one river basin. Two excavation seasons, in 1989 and 2013, opened six of the mounds and found both pit-style stone chambers and the corridor-entered kind. Tomb 32 keeps its full oval mound, 21 metres across. The building technique is the reason specialists come. The mounds were laid out in planned stages, with an inner earth core, dividing stones, alternating layers of different soils rammed down for strength, a ditch cut for drainage, and timber posts used while the stone chamber was going up. Pottery, ring-pommel swords, spears, farm tools and horse fittings came out with them.

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Where it is

Region

Namwon, Jeonbuk

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Historic Site · 사적