Fortress in Singi-ri, Yangsan

Basic information

Designation

Historic Site No.97

Category

Sites & Pagodas

Era

신라시대

Designated year

1963

Location

양산시, 경상남도— 경남 양산시 북정동

Coordinates

35.352652, 129.057994

This is a fortress wall piled up with stones around the top of Sanseong Mountain 232m above sea level. Because it is located in Seonangsan Mountain, it is also called Seonangsanseong. Most of the wall has collapsed, so only the wall with the circumference spanning 2600m and height of 1m remains. According to Kim Bu-sik's Samguk sagi (History of the Three Kingdoms), the following record says that the Silla made a fortress wall in Yangsan Mountain in order to prevent invasion by the Japanese pirates through the Nakdonggang River. Judging from the record and the pieces of the Silla's pottery, it is considered to be a wall built in the Silla Era. Since the Bukbudongsanseong Fortress located in the South of this fortress is similar in the scale, it had the form of twin walls. The group of tombs of the Silla Era, that was made in around the 6th century and well known as Bubuchong, is scattered; it is considered as an important source of historic knowledge on the Silla Period.

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