영남지방 3~5세기 목곽 구조 복원안들의 종합토론

Abstract

For the inner structure of wooden chamber tomb in Yeongnam region of the 3-5 centuries AD, three hypothetical reconstructions based on the iron cramps' distributional patterns on the chamber floor have been proposed during the last ten years. According to the earliest reconstruction, there was an another inner wooden chamber without a coffin within it. The second one points to the existence of a coffin hooked up with iron cramps, but denies an inner wooden chamber around it. The last and third reconstruction agrees on the existence of a coffin, but denies the possibility of existence of any inner structure using iron cramps. Instead, it proposes to allocate to those iron cramps the function of connecting and fixing the covering boards of the outer chamber. After the strong and weak points of reasoning of apparently contradicting three reconstructions having been analysed, an integrated new hypothesis is proposed, which presumes that an inner chamber covered with boards connected and fixed with iron cramps had a coffin in it and they were surrounded with an outer chamber without those cramps. This new integrated reconstruction together with other three competing ones, especially the third reconstruction were tested against the original data of Bokcheon-dong Tombs site on which these had been based. As a result, while the third reconstruction revealed an inconsistent methodology and contradictions among data applications, the new reconstruction fitted well into the data. Furthermore, this reconstruction was also tested against two other data from Jisan-dong Tumulus no.73 at Goryeong and Gueo-ri wooden chamber tombs at Gyeongju respectively. These tests proved to be successful, thereby strengthening the persuasive power of the new reconstruction.