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Ban Khu Bua Ancient Town is located in Tambon Khu Bua. Its
Ancient Monument No. 18 archaeologically points out that
Ratchaburi was once the prosperous city in Dvaravati period. The
city plan is a rounded rectangle, aligned along the north-south
axis, with the width of eight hundred metres and the length of
two kilometres. The city was built on a coastal terrace one to
two metres higher than the surrounding area and five metres
above the sea level. There were two streams running through the
city, which were Huai Khu Bua and Huai Chinnasi. The
architecture of Ban Khu Bua was influenced by Gupta arts of
India. The evidences found also prove that Buddhism has long
settled and flourished in Thailand for more than a thousand
years; the excavated antiques, the heads of Buddha images in
particular, are well preserved at Ratchaburi National Museum and
partly at Wat Khlong Suwannakhiri (Khlong Suwannakhiri Temple)
Ancient monuments in Khu Bua Town area
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Moat. The moat comprises of two earthen dykes and a ditch
in between. The ditch is fifty-metre-wide, filled with water.
The dykes are also fifty-metre-wide and three-metre-high, except
for the the northern moat which is adapted from the natural
stream Huai Khu Bua.
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Religious sites. More than 60 Buddhist ancient monuments
of both Theravada and Mahayana schools have been found up to the
present day. Bases of the sites are usually decorated with
earthen sculptures and plaster works about jataka and other
religious tales. Construction materials are mostly bricks; the
length is 34-35 centimetres, the width is 17-19 centimetres, and
the thickness is 8-10 centimetres. The clay used for making
bricks is mixed with big-grain rice husks. While most ancient
monuments here had their foundation made of bricks, only two of
these traces, which are the Ancient Monument No. 18 and No. 31,
show that laterite was used.
Antiques in Khu Bua Town
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Plaster sculptures and baked clay decoration of the
ancient monuments such as Buddha images, Bodhisattvas, angels,
upper-classes, general citizens, mythical creatures like giants,
garuda, and animals.
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Imprinted baked clay vessels, censers, bullets, clay
cowries, stone weapons, glass, metals, earrings, rings,
bracelets, beads, etc. These antiques share the continuous
developing patterns ongoing since the pre-historical age, but
also display the higher technology used, leading to the
conclusion that Khu Bua should once be a promising city during
11th -16th Buddhist century.
The ancient town
is five kilometres to the south of Ratchaburi’s downtown. It
opens every day 08.00-16.30hrs. |
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Ratchaburi |
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Khu Bua |
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13.48658 N |
99.835349 E |
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