경주 불국사 건물지 발견 투공초석 서설

Abstract

It is known that Bulguksa Temple in Gyeongju was established by initiative by KIM, DAESEONG, the Prime Minister of Unified Silla Period. Then, it has underwent repeated repair and maintenance work. In 1976, there was the middle build among buildings which are being seen at the present. With regard to the process of the middle build, there were approximately 106 pieces of punching stone at the bottom part of the footing stone considered to be founded at Chosun Dynasty. Thus, I collected, researched and analyzed various punching stone hinges of door stones in similar figure found across the nation. As a result, I found that the punching stone found at Bulguksa Temple was a kind of footing stone and was special foundation structure designed to take action against external force, cross force and puller force which are given to wooden column from column leg. That's because it is seen as reinforcement structure for the column leg, which was installed for earthquake resistant capacity, by way of processing the leg part of the wood column and combining it to punching stone. Therefore, I confirmed the fact one more time that punching stone found at Bulguksa Temple was punching stone footing. I also found that this kind of footing stone was commonly used across the nation. And, it is considered that this kind of footing stone had used for a long period of time from the fourth century until the nineteenth century.