anyone else have bronze age burial grounds in their neighbourhood?

Cause I do.

I discovered them On Sunday when we went for a walk after having a lazy sleep in after a busy(ish) Saturday.

Saturday morning was one of my three Saturday work days (as mentioned previously). I was there at 10:30 and out by two. It was actually okay, and some student presentations were great. Also, unlike the one presentation I did at SEI these ones are just done at the school. After that it was Mike's birthday so we went downtown to an all you can eat place and fed well. They were off to booze and club so I decided to go home and relax. Given that it was a work day it was good.

Sunday I had talked about going to Dodong Seowon or the Moon Family residence (both later Joseon era buildings, around the 17th century) but slept in a bit and so decided just to see some ruins that were walking distance from my place. Well walking distance means 15 minutes and ruins means bronze age burial mounds.

In reality it was some carefully stacked cut rocks with a large rock in the middle that had various symbols carved in to it. It was amazing mostly because it was over 2000 years old and the people there were obviously of some importance to the culture living there. Since this was done before the introduction of writing we don't know who they are or who is buried there, but that just adds to the mystery. It was only discovered in the 1990's as development rolled in to the area (it's strange to see various high rise apartments and 4-5 story walkups surrounding this little park with a bronze age monument, but that's Korea :P) and was surveyed by a team from Kyungpook University before teh city council made it a park to protect it from development. It's a great little thing to have so close to where i live, I'm sure I'll go back.

Overall it was a good, quiet weekend.