Geumheun-ri Ibugok Valley Earthen Fortification, Sangju

This fortress, in Geumheun-ri, Sabeol-myeon, Sangju, Gyeongsangbuk-do, is a mountain fortress built of earth in the pogok-sik style, a form that takes in a broad valley within its walls and runs its ramparts along the ridgeline surrounding the valley. It sits amid the ridges that curve in a U-shape around the plain of Sabeol-myeon, and relics from the late Bronze Age, the early Iron Age, and the proto-Three Kingdoms period have been found both inside and outside the fortress.

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Where it is

Region

Sangju, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물