MOUNTAIN SITE PADANG CIANJUR WEST JAVA PROVINCE

Mountain site in Padang Mountain Village and Panggulan village, District Campaka Karyamukti village, Cianjur, a megalithic site in the form of punden the largest in Southeast Asia. This recall building area of approximately 900 m2 with a total area own site approximately 3 ha.The First existence of this site appeared in the report by Rapporten van de oudheid-kundigen Dienst (ROD), 1914, subsequently reported NJ Krom 1949. in 1979 the relevant authorities in the development and research of cultural heritage objects that overseers local culture and followed by Pulit Arkenas conduct a review of the location of the site. Since then the research effort towards the site of Mount Padang started either from the point of archaeological, historical, geological and others.Punden Berundak building form reflects the tradition of megalithic (mega means great and lithos means stone) as often found in several areas in West Java. Mount Padang site located 50 kilometers from Cianjur said to be the largest megalithic site in Southeast Asia. Among the local people, the site is believed to be evidence of an effort to build the palace of King Siliwangi overnight.Assisted by his troops, he was trying to collect blocks of stone which is only found in that area. However, the night seems to be fleeting. A tinge of dawn in the eastern horizon has thwarted his efforts, then that region then he left. He let the stones scattered on the hill which is now called Mount Padang. Means bright meadow.Punden Mount Padang, built with volcanic rock massive rectangular.The building consists of five terraces with different sizes. The stones have not experienced the touch of human hands in a sense, have not worked or shaped by human hands.Stone blocks are very much sums it spread to almost cover the peak of Mount Padang. The locals dub some rocks located on terraces with names smelled of Islam. For instance there is the so-called table rollers Pangancingan Kiai, Chair Grandmother Bonang, Jojodog or grandparent Swasana seat, backrest stone Suhaedin Sheikh alias Sheikh Abdul Rusman, stairs Grandmother Marzuki Sheikh and Sheikh Abdul Fukor stone.

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