Ban Tat Thong Archaeological Site

Opening days: Daily

Opening hours: 08.00 - 17.00

 

Ban Tat Thong Archaeological Site Located at Ban Tad Thong, Tat Thong Sub-district, Mueang District, is a large earthen mound about 3 meters high, surrounded by a ditch around 1 layer, in an oval shape, laying along the northeast - southwest direction, about 500 meters wide. Approximately 650 meters long, the city is now divided into two parts.

 

Because Highway 23 cuts through and houses are densely located. There are farming and vegetable planting around the mound. The ancient ditch was destroyed. west moat has dug into a drainage canal.

 

Ban Tad Thong, about 2,500 years ago, was an agricultural community. Evidence of supine burial found The utensils found were fragments of earthenware with colored markings on the edge of the mouth. which are commonly found in the Thung Kula Ronghai area This community has continued to live through the Dvaravati and Khmer periods. have found a lot of sema leaves.

 

The sema leaves that are found are different from the sema leaves that are found in the early and middle communities of the Chi River. In Chaiyaphum, Khon Kaen, Maha Sarakham, and Kalasin, the latter generation has come down to the present, with a Thai-Lao community living in it. The important religious places of the community are Phra That Kong Khao Noi and Phra That Ban Sadao.