Gwangju Wolgye-dong Janggobun

The tombs lie on a low hilly area beside the alluvial plain of the upper Yeongsan River, in the village of Janggu-chon. Both Mound 1 and Mound 2 contain a stone chamber with a passage, entered from the side, and the walls of the chamber were laid from rubble stone like brickwork. A stone chamber was built to hold the body, a mound was heaped over it, and a ditch was dug around the outside of the mound.

The tombs were looted during the Japanese colonial period and much of their structure was lost. They were restored to their present form in 1997.

The area was to be developed in the 1990s as the Gwangju Cheomdan Science and Industry Complex, and two campaigns of investigation were carried out in order to preserve the tombs on the spot. The first, in 1993, was a trial excavation that established the extent of the two mounds and fixed the protected zone. In 1995 the second campaign fully excavated the ditches of both mounds.