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Consideration on the Moat of Wolseong Fortress at Gyuongju  

Jung, Yong-Jo (Graduate School, Korea University)
Park, Joo-Sung (Graduate School, Korea University)
Sim, Woo-Kyung (Landscape Architecture Program, Korea University)
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Journal of the Korean Institute of Traditional Landscape Architecture / v.28, no.2, 2010 , pp. 37-44 More about this Journal
Abstract
Our country traditionally employed a defensive system against the aggression by foreign powers by using a town castle and mountain castle. The moat was one of such a defensive system; however, there is few research work on a moat in comparison with its long history. This study was carried out to see the process of the changes of the Wolseong Fortress at Gyuongju, focused on the moat of the scale and nature of the construction methods to analyze such a Wolseong Fortress at Gyuongju as a result of consideration through bibliographical study, on-site investigation, and interviews, etc. This research discovered some facts as follows: the moats of Wolseong fortress at Gyeongju are roughly divided into three types; the first one is a natural moat flowing curved by the south side of Wolseong using the natural stream[Namcheon]as it is; the second one is a pond-type moat made by digging up plane non-rectangular pond along stereobate of castle wall with lakefront built with stream pebbles, and the last one is masonry moat at the east side of Wolseong with chisel-trimmed granites orderly piled in a plane triangular form. Among these, the pond-type moat was identified at the east-north-west side of Wolseong and the pond slopes from east to west as a separate one constructed with the terraces.
Keywords
Wolseong Fortress at Gyeongju; Castle; Moat; Town Castle; Mountain Castle;
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