Bullodong Tumuli in Daegu

The tombs stand on the south-western slope of a hill spanning Bullo-dong and Ipseok-dong. The mounds are usually 15 to 20 m in diameter and 4 to 7 m high, although a second description gives their height as around 4 m. The burial chamber is a rectangular pit-type stone cist, 4.5 to 8 m long, 0.8 to 1.2 m wide and 1.0 to 2.2 m deep. Its four walls are built of stream cobbles or broken stone, and the floor has no special preparation. The cist was covered with flat, broad stone slabs, then topped with gravel and sealed under earth. In some cists a partition wall separates the space for grave goods from the space for the body.

Many of the gold and silver objects had already been looted by the time of excavation. The tombs nevertheless yielded gold earrings and glass-bead necklaces, pottery, horse gear such as bits and pendants, and weapons and tools including arrowheads, axes and sickles. The grave goods also included bones of shark, which is among the evidence for dating the tombs to the 5th and 6th centuries of the Three Kingdoms period.