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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: AchasanSeong Alternative Name: 아차산성 阿且山城, Adansanseong 아단1Country: South Korea
NOTE: This site is 4.988 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Seoul city, Gwangjin-gu Nearest Village: Gwanjang-dong (관장동)
Latitude: 37.555900N Longitude: 127.104470E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Hillfort in South Korea
On the slope of Mt. AchaSan (아차산 峨嵯山, 283m alt.), there lies a hillfort at 200m alt. point. This is believed to be the AdanSan (아단산) fortress where the King Gaero (개로왕 蓋鹵王) of Baekje kingdom was executed by the aggression Goguryeo kingdom army in 475 CE, as the result Baekje abandoned the capital Seoul and relocated at Ungjin (nowadays Gongju (공주) city)).
Originally this fortress is called AdanSan (阿旦山), the miss spelling of Chinese character caused the alteration of the name; AchaSan (阿且山), and now another characters of the same pronunciation 峨嵯山 have applied.
The fortress surrounds a mountain ridge for 1000m but now is surrounded by the modern fence and it difficult to observe the details of the rock piled wall.
The shortcut path to this site begins at 37.55178 N, 127.10329 E but rather monotonous, another approach Mt. AchaSan trekking path (begins at 37.55276 N, 127.09962 E) contains beautiful valley, cascade and the great distant view of the Seoul city, is very enjoyable and crowded Seoul citizen.
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