Okjeon Tumuli
Okjeon Tumuli in Hapcheon, the essence of Korean burial culture
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Planning the visit
Okjeon Tumuli is stop 9 of 9 on the Gaya Culture Route.
The stamp is not at the site itself but at the Information Desk at the Hapcheon Museum, so check the opening hours of that building rather than the site.
The two closest stamp points are Dodongseowon, 16 km away, and Jisan-dong Tumuli at 16 km. All three fit into one day.
Details
- Address
- San 29-1, Seongsan-ri, Ssangchaek-myeon, Hapcheon-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do
- Stamp zone
- Information Desk at the Hapcheon Museum
- Phone
- 055-930-3176
- Coordinates
- 35.58008, 128.28206
What the campaign says about it
The Okjeon Tumuli are located in Okjeon Village at Seongsan-ri, Ssangchaek-myeon, Hapcheon-gun, and are a group of tombs built during the Gaya period, dating from the 4th to early 6th centuries CE. Archaeologists believe there are more than 1,000 tombs in the Okjeon Tumuli cluster, which take up an entire hill on the banks of Hwanggang River (a tributary to the Nakdonggang River). Particularly worth noting are the 18 tombs with diameters between 20~30m that are clustered closer together than the others. According to an excavation survey, burial tombs (wooden tombs), pit-type stone burial tombs (vertical stone burial tombs), pit-type front open stone chamber tombs (vertical cross-section stone chamber tombs), and cave-type stone chamber tombs (horizontal stone chamber tombs) were found in the area. Plenty of relics, including earthenware, iron weapons, armor harnesses, and accessories, were found in tombs that presumably belonged to the more powerful owners. Given the dragon and phoenix sword with a ring pommel, iron armor, gilt-bronze helmet, and iron horse helmet, one of the tombs may have belonged to a ruler of Gaya. The Okjeon Tumuli are an important resource not only in terms of Gaya culture, but also in terms of ancient Korean burial culture as the relics found here can be compared to those from Goguryeo such as the helmet found inside Chongo-ri Sanseong Fortress in Pyeonganbuk-do.
Quoted from the Visit Korean Heritage Campaign.
Getting there
Get off at the KTX Dongdaegu station → Take the Daegu subway line no. 1 at Dongdaegu station → Get off at Seobu bus stop, walk to the intercity bus terminal (Seobu bus stop), and take a bus bound for the Hapcheon intercity bus terminal → Get off at Hapcheon intercity bus terminal and walk to the regular bus stop at Hapcheon intercity bus terminal → Take the bus bound for Hapcheon-Podu → Get off at Jinjeong bus stop → Walk for 10 minutes
Photographs
Photographs supplied by the Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation.