King
Muryong's Tomb
It was found when drainage work was conducted
to prevent water penetration into the Songsanri
old tombs No. 5 and 6 in 1971 and excavated for
the first time about 1,500 years after it was
made. In particular, people were so excited because
the tomb clearly recorded that the tomb was for
King Muryeong and his wife. According to excavation,
the tomb of King Muryong looked like a small hill
. Its diameter was about 20m and its height was
7.7m from the bottom. However, as times went by,
it was seriously damaged.
Then, it is estimated that the tomb was much bigger
than it is now.
The front side consists of a single room and the
section is a long rectangular shape from south
to north. There is a passage into a tomb in the
middle. The wall is vertical from the top to the
bottom, that is, south to north. The east and
west side is formed with arch ceiling with gradual
curve. The inner side of the tomb is 4.2m from
south to north and 2.72m from east to west. The
height from the top to the bottom in the middle
is 3.14m. The tomb burying King and his wife is
built in the basic dimension without waste of
space. On the walls, long bricks and small bricks
are piled up in turn. Four long bricks are horizontally
piled up and 11 small bricks are vertically piled
up in four horizontal piling and one vertical
piling method. |
