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This castle is located at the top of Seongjaesan of Eupna-ri, Gimhwa-eup, Cherwon and also called as Seongsanseong. It is the stone castle with 500m in diameters. The method of piling up the stone seemed to be the method of Jinhung era, Shilla. At present the original formation of the castle has changed a lot caused of stationing of the military base and almost all castles were collapsed. The crockery and tiles of Goryeo descent were found from place to place.It is located in the northern part of the civilian control line. It was found out that the hillfort was the estimated location of Byeoungjahoran through the battle record of Eurim and Hongmyeonggu. And this castle is close distance to towns and villages so it is possible to enter the castle and prepare in the time of emergency. So that there is a big possibility that the temple had the function of tropism. The total diameter is about 500m. It is called Toemoe style as the temple was built surrounding the upper part of a mountain pavilion like hoop. Majorities of small and middle-sized hillforts in Korea are built with Toemoe style mountain pavilion. The wall of hillforts are generally piles up with the halseok that has the outside toughly engraved and interior of the walls are filled with regular stone.
The formation of stone piling found to be the method of the Jinhung Empire at the end of the 6th Century, the character of piling the wall of Shilla is the piling with pebbles holding in between.
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