Hamyang Bangjisanseong Fortress

This mountain fortress was built running west along the ridge near the summit of Bangjisan Mountain, on the plain in Seosang-myeon, Hamyang County, South Gyeongsang Province. During the Three Kingdoms period, when Baekje repeatedly invaded and plundered Silla territory, a fortress is said to have been built here as a defence, with rice stored inside; for this reason it is called Hammiseong, meaning roughly "rice-storing fortress," and is also known as Geumdangseong. It is also said that because the peak of the hill in front of the village resembled a lotus flower floating on a pond, it was named Bangji, meaning "fragrant pond." Today the upper part of the fortress wall has collapsed, making the fortress's outline difficult to trace, but it was built using natural stones and quarried stones about 45 cm by 30 cm in size, to a height of about 3–4 m; only about 500 m of the wall now survives. There is a well at the centre of the fortress interior, and roof-tile fragments found within the walls suggest that a building once stood there.

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Where it is

Region

Hamyang, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물