Liyangan Sites

Temanggung (AFP) - Site Liyangan that discovered in 2008 in the area of Liyangan sand mining, Ngadirejo District, Temanggung, Central Java is predicted an era of settlements or villages of Old Mataram.





Head of Culture and Tourism, County Waterford, Bekti Prijono, on Wednesday, said that the results of the research team of Yogyakarta Archaeological Center estimates that the site is not a big temple, but it is a rustic from the ancient Mataram era.

Allegations that the site is a rustic because there was found the remains of wood and bamboo houses.
Bekti mention, the first discovery of talud, yoni, statues, and stones of the temple. Subsequent discovery of a temple stay on top of the foot and there is a unique yoni, unlike the general, because it has three holes yoni.

Three Holes Yoni
The findings of the latter is a spectacular form of a wooden house on stilts from the burned and still stand upright. One unit of the house standing on a platform of white stone as high as 2.5 m.

Here also found one other wooden houses, which has recently appeared on the roof.

Archaeology team estimates that the two units is the building houses the Ancient Mataram. This is based on the locations close to the findings of a Hindu temple located 50 meters west of the house.

Based on the classic profile of Central Java at the foot of the temple will prove that this temple from the ninth century AD. It is estimated that these houses are in a complex with a temple and probably represents one epoch.


In general, potential archaeological sites Liyangan data is high based on several indications, including wide variety of sites and data, building the foundation, the temple, the former home of wood and bamboo, stone structures, the lamp of clay materials, and various forms of pottery.

It also obtained information about the structure of the stone buildings, the findings of animal bones and teeth, as well as rice.

Liyangan site is a site with complex characters, which is indicated as a site of settlement, ritual sites, and agricultural sites.

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