꽃뫼유적에 대하여

About The Remains of Kkot Moi Hill

KkotMoi Hill(꽃뫼동산) is located in the junction between a hilly country and a plain geographically. This area is fit for agriculture because there are lots of wide fields and hillocks rivers are flowing along, in addition, KkotMoi Hill is the lowest area of the hill where people can assemble, so it has a speciality such as very similar topography to other sites people lived mainly for agriculture and for their life since the Bronze Age. It is important that ancestral rites have been done up to the late dates. The fact that many relics of Koryo and Chosun dynasties have been discovered testifies continual human traces up there though we don’t have any documents lelated to it. According to documentary records, a village formed at first in the end of the 18th century, but it is believed that ancestral rites started being done long time ago. Sacred ancestral rites gradually degenerated into superstitions, so we can guess KkotMoi Hill changed into the place for mountain sacrificial rites. Many traces started to leave since before christ and it was assumed that many remains were buried between 2-4th century in KkotMoi Hill. Reinforcing stone walls and Togwang graves(토광묘) were discovered on top of KkotMoi Hill, Ongkwan graves(옹관묘) and tombs in Chosun dynasty were in around the mountain’s breast, but it is not thought that those things were related to each other. Something special was made in before christ. The investigation about the earthen vessels and the remains in KkotMoi Hill enable us to conclude that people who lived around KkotMoi Hill piled up the reinforcing walls in the large part of KkotMoi Hill and buried their daily necessities; therefore, it came to be thought that the remains on the top of KkotMoi Hill were related to Sodo(蘇塗) in Samhan(三韓) Age. Even though instruments for sacrificial rites have not been found, some people must have buried earthen vessels and blue porcelains and hardware with some purpose through long time. In other word, ancestral rites for their peace and prosperity and fruitful year have been done by the village people since ancient time, even lately; therefore, KkotMoi Hill area can be thought that it is related to Sodo where ancestral rites have been done in Samhan Age.