Dalseong Fortress, Daegu

Basic information

Designation

Historic Site No.62

Category

Sites & Pagodas

Era

삼국시대

Designated year

1963

Location

중구, 대구광역시— 대구 중구 달성공원로 35 (달성동)

Coordinates

35.873875, 128.577659

The wall was built in the Three Kingdoms Period (76 B.C.-A.D. 668) by using the hill. The evidence of shell heaps and the traces of wooden fortifications beneath the wall suggest that it has developed from a mud wall by an early tribe around their dwellings, and these remnants of a fortress wall date back to the Early Iron Age. The wall was specially erected by taking advantage of the small hills like the Wolseong Fortress in Gyeongju. Thus, this fortress is evaluated as the typical model of the early wall in the southern area. The wall was mainly built with mud and was reinforced with stones later. It is said that there were a warehouse, a well, and a pond until the early Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). A number of stone chamber tombs – where the gilt bronze crown and other remains were unearthed – form the southwestern part of the wall. Dalseong Fortress in Daegu is an important source of knowledge as that it gives to the early form of the wall.

Location