Jinju Okbong Tumuli

These tombs were formed on hills divided into Okbong and Sujeongbong. They are typical Gaya stone-chamber tombs, built in the first half of the sixth century. Originally there were seven large mounded tombs, but from the Japanese colonial period onwards the tombs were destroyed as the land was cleared for cultivation, so that today only Sujeongbong Tombs No. 2 and No. 3 remain. A 1910 survey by a Japanese scholar of Sujeongbong Tombs No. 2 and No. 3 and Okbong Tomb No. 7 is recorded in the Joseon gojeok dobo (Photographic Album of Korean Antiquities). Most of the artefacts excavated at that time were taken to the University of Tokyo, and have only recently been introduced and made known. Sujeongbong Tomb No. 2 is a stone-chamber tomb with a horizontal entrance passage, built of broken stones, with the passage (yeondo) at the centre; the burial chamber (hyeonsil) measures 532 cm in length, 176 cm in width and 230 cm in height. Sujeongbong Tomb No. 3 is similar in size and form to Tomb No. 2. Okbong Tomb No. 7, which no longer survives, is of unknown mound shape or scale, but is thought to have resembled Sujeongbong Tombs No. 2 and No. 3. The excavated artefacts include earthenware, ironware, spindle whorls, beads, iron swords, spears, axes and bits. On the basis of their form, structure and excavated artefacts, these tombs provide important clues for explaining the relationship between Baekje and Daegaya, and constitute an important site showing the character of Gaya culture centred on the Jinju region.

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Where it is

Region

Jinju, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물