Yeongil Chilpo-ri Petroglyphs Group

Petroglyphs are images of symbols, objects and animals that prehistoric people carved onto rock faces or cave walls, generally understood as the product of ritual practices seeking agricultural abundance and productivity. These petroglyphs are carved into a rock face that juts out beside the valley of Gollyunsan Mountain, west of Chilpo-ri Beach. There are three carved rock surfaces in all: one at the original site, one in the valley six metres away, and another twenty metres away. At the original site, the front of the outcrop was roughly pecked flat, and six identical figures were densely carved to fill the entire west-facing surface. The rock in the valley appears to be a fragment that split off from the original rock, and it likewise bears two identical figures on its west-facing surface. At both locations the carvings have worn considerably over the long passage of time. The one twenty metres away is small and unfinished. The images were incised as line drawings using the pecking technique. On either side of a spool-shaped form — narrow in the middle and widening at top and bottom — four or five curved lines link the upper and lower sections, and cup marks (called seonghyeol) are carved in the intervals between them.

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Where it is

Region

Pohang, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산