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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: SamnyeonSanseong Alternative Name: 삼년산성 三年山城Country: South Korea
NOTE: This site is 15.844 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Boeun 보은 Nearest Village: Oam-ri 어암리
Latitude: 36.487890N Longitude: 127.740750E
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 |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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A fine and very solid hillfort in South Korea, which can be seen clearly from some distance. It is the only hillfort whose construction is recorded in literature : the construction by Silla kingdom began in 470 CE and was accomplished 3 years later ; ‘samnyeon’ means ‘three years’ (‘sanseong’ means ‘mount castle’). 1,680m circumference.
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