Bulro-dong Ancient Tombs (Daegu)

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Guidepost to Ancient Tombs is at the right side before entering in to Gyeongbu Express way after passing by Bulro-dong Floricultural Complex where dwarfed trees and shrubs including fragrant chrysanthemums of the late autumn and other flowers are lined up.
Go upward some 400m to the residential area byway following the guidepost is located Bulro-dong Ancient Tombs designated firstly as a National Property No. 262 on 23rd June 1978, together with the Ancient Tombs at Yean-ri of Gimhae, Gyeongnam Province over 299,746㎡(90,673 pyeong) of the vast mountainous area.

Follow the walking path some 50m upward after passing by several well managed grave mounds at the entrance to meet somewhat unique large or small ancient tombs that are different from the magnificent and stately royal tombs of Gyeongju.
Ancient tombs are protuberant like peaks of the mountain following the open ridge.

These Ancient Tombs are grave mounds spreading over Bulro-dong, Bongmu-dong and Do-dong along the ridge from Mt. Palgong to the place cut by the Expressway, and currently all 211 ancient tombs are standing closely together.

In 1938, when 2 ancient tombs were studied, Bulro-dong Ancient Tombs were called by the name of ‘Haean-myeon Ancient Tombs’. Afterwards, on two occasions, first in December 1963 and second in January next year, 2 more toms were studied by Gyeongbuk University Museum and they were known as ‘Daegu Bulro-dong Ancient Tombs’ including ‘Haeanmyeon Ancient Tombs.

In case of the ‘Haean-myeon No. 1 Tomb, mountain stones were used to build walls and the body seemed to have been placed on the sand above raw ground, and some earthen wares and fragments of ornament (Woonju) were excavated as burial accessories.

In general, according to the scientific excavation research, internal structure was revealed to have 4 walls with layers of river stones or broken stones and rectangular vertically dug stone lined tomb with flat stone lid, and a lot of burial accessories such as; golden or glitz bronze ornaments, iron ax, iron spikes, harnesses and engraved earthen wares were excavated.

These Ancient Tombs are assumed to have been constructed approximately during 4-5 century at the period of Three States, with diameters of 15~20m and heights around 4mm which is believed to be the cemetery of the native governing powers that had controlled this area.

Bulro-dong Ancient Tombs have the best outward form among the other ancient tombs existing over whole Daegu area..

We can have a look at a sign of the times through these tombs, even though limited to their outward appearance. These ancient tombs have meanings and values as an ancient site that shows us traces of Daugu basin and status of the original distribution of box type stone tombs along east side of the Nakdong-river.