Prang Ban Prang |
|
ปรางค์บ้านปรางค์ |
|
Address: |
|
|
|
|
Known as: |
|
|
|
|
Description: |
|
The ruins of Prang Ban Prang are in an inconspicuous grove of
trees in the middle of a little village. The temple had a
single prang built of sandstone and brick on a laterite base.
While most of it lies buried in dirt, many pieces (mostly
sandstone, but also some laterite and brick) sit on top of the
small mound. The joints for the four sandstone pieces of the
doorway suggest Prang Ban Prang was built in the 11th century.
Other sandstone carving includes two fairly complete pediment
fronts. While in many villages Khmer art like this is turned
into a shrine, here offerings are made at four small regular
Thai-style shrines on top of the mound. Not many things here
survived the ages unbroken or unstolen, but the prang's
lotus-bud top is complete. It and a few other carved sandstone
pieces are kept two villages over to the northeast at Wat Bing.
(Not at the nearby Wat Prang Noi, as you would expect from the
name.) The old wooden posts also on display here are what
funeral ashes used to be stored in up until about a century ago.
Nothing visible from a moat remains, though parts of one are
shown on the site plan on one of the two information signs at
the ruins. This is, however, unreliable since it would mean that
the temple pointed to the north or the west instead of the usual
east. (Note that the arrow on the sign indicating north is
incorrect; it really points to the west.)
Location – Ban
Thai Mu 2, Tambon Phlap Phla, Amphoe Chok Chai, Nakhon
Ratchasima Province Other names – Prang Noi Phlap Phla
(ปรางค์น้อยพลับพลา), Prang Maat (ปรางค์มาส) |
|
Province |
|
Nakhon Ratchasima |
Direction: |
|
|
|
District |
|
Chok Chai |
|
|
City |
|
Phlapphla |
Comments: |
|
Official Web: |
|
|
|
Genre |
|
Ruins |
|
|
Related links: |
|
|
|
Best exposure |
|
AM/PM |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Rating |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Opening time |
|
na |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Entry fee |
|
Free |
|
|
GPS : |
|
14.71467, 102.14934 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|