Gyeseong Tumuli, Changnyeong

Basic information

Designation

Historic Site No.547

Category

유적지

Designated year

2019

Location

창녕군, 경상남도— 경상남도 창녕군 계성면 계성리 368 외

Coordinates

35.478879, 128.507374

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The Changnyeong Gyeseong Burial Mound Group is a large-scale burial mound cluster distributed across the sloping faces of a ridge extending westward from Yeongchuk Mountain, with 261 mounds distributed across multiple ridge lines, including five large burial mounds exceeding 30 meters in diameter at the summit. Following documentation of the mound distribution in 1917, five successive excavation surveys were conducted. The excavations revealed that pit-style stone-cist graves were covered with wooden lids at their stone casket chambers. Distinctive Changnyeong-style pottery, personal ornaments, horse furnishings, and weapons were excavated in significant quantities. The Changnyeong Gyeseong Burial Mound Group was constructed over the 5th to 7th centuries, and the transformation in construction methods from large burial mounds with pit-style stone-cist graves to horizontal-entrance stone chamber tombs appears as a progression from west to east, recognized as an important archaeological record demonstrating the establishment, development, and decline of Gaya in the Changnyeong region.

Location