Gusan Fortress Site, Changwon

Gusan Fortress, in Jaeun-dong, Jinhae-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, is a mountain fortress whose walls encircle the summit of a 116 m-high mountain in a band, built by stacking stone at a slant. The walls survive relatively well preserved, buried underground; in places the inner face reaches a height of 5 m, and the fortress has a circumference of 360 m. The stone used was granite or a slate-type rock cut into square blocks, while the core of the wall was packed with natural stones the size of a human head, stacked in tidy courses. The wall is 6 m wide at the base and 5.5 m at the top, with the inner and outer faces built sloping inward toward the core. There is a single gate site on the east side, outside of which a moat encircles the area to control access. Traces inside the fortress suggest there were water-supply and drainage channels and building sites. The site was excavated by the Dong-A University Museum from 1983 to 1984, yielding a modest quantity of pottery fragments, roof-tile fragments and ironware fragments. Judging from the excavated artefacts and the fortress's structure, it is thought to have been built in the latter half of the 6th century and remained in use through the Goryeo period.

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Where it is

Region

Changwon, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물