Medan - Archaeologists discover the structure allegedly ancient temple in the excavation in the city of Medan, North Sumatra (North Sumatra). Location of the discovery is in the Environment VII, sand Paya Village, District Field Marelan.
Excavation was done Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient (EFEO / French Far East Research Centre), and the National Archaeological Center, supported by the Archaeological Institute of Field and involve field staff of the Centre for Study of Social Science and History (Pussis) State University of Medan (Unimed) . Excavation process has been underway since 14 days ago, and on Wednesday (20/03/2013) is the last day.
Structures made of ancient bricks were found in a box in the excavation depth of about two meters. Brick wall of the building which is approximately 40 cm thick. The length and structure of the intact would not be known for being on the ground floor and breaks into houses.
When the last day of excavation took place Wednesday afternoon, archaeologist Daniel Perret derived from Heddy Surachman EFEO together researchers from the National Archaeological Center is also the team leader, looks to be careful digging in the excavation area of 250 square meters. Section by section of land at the site excavation sliced with sekrap. So they take notes and photographing the parts. Ceramic fragments found and cleaned with water, then dikodefikasi.
Heddy Surachman stated to reporters, conducted excavations is a collaboration Indonesia and France in an effort to find out how to trace the settlement of the past in this place. The area is known as the Chinese city, still leaves a lot of questions, including the structure of the building were found this time is the possibility of a temple.
"Very likely. However still too early to be due to a small fraction of new looks. We still do not know how long and wide and have not been able to construct the shape of the building is like," said Surachman accompanied Perret.
The team also has not found the statue as a whole, which is the important thing in a sacred buildings like temples. Indeed, there was found a few fragments of granite statues, but it can not be a guideline.
"Arca is a moveable object, easily portable, so we can not conclude quickly," said Surachman.
To ensure that the structure of the temple buildings are found or not, need more excavation is done. However, due to time constraints the initial stages of excavation is only done up here.
While Daniel Perret stated, it takes at least five or six years to dig around the site to find out what the first Chinese city.
"This is one of a new stage in the study of ancient settlement site in North Sumatra. After three years of digging in here, we get a remarkable findings, good bones, artifacts and other organic materials. Almost no other site in North Sumatra which has a wealth of findings like these, "said Perret.
source : news.detik.com
