Ban Khok Muang| Native Name | บ้านโคกเมือง, បានគោកមឿង |
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| Alternative name | Muang Tam, Mueang Tam |
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| BA# | T31044 |
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| Type | Ancient City |
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| Location |
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| Part of | Ban Khok Muang |
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| Village | Ban Khok Muang |
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| Commune | Chorakhe Mak |
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| District | Prakhon Chai |
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| Province | Buriram |
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| Country | Thailand |
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| Coordinates | 14.49377, 102.98109 |
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| History |
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| Founded | 11th Century |
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Ban Khok Muang (บ้านโคกเมือง - Pronounced: Baan Kok Moo-ung)
The large ancient reservoir, Baray Muang Tam, a nearby arogyasala, Kuti Ruesi Ban Khok Muang and the significant-sized sanctuary of Prasat Muang Tam indicate the presence of an important Angkorian city in the area. Unfortunately, while the baray is still intact and the sanctuary sites carefully restored, little evidence of the surrounding settlement remains and neither the precise location and extent - not even the city's original name - are confirmed.
There are no traces of any surrounding moat or embankments - if any ever existed - and it appears possible that a lack of perceived security threats in the region during the 11th and 12th centuries negated the need for fortifications and the settlement was conceivably an open-plan one. (There may have been a pre-Angkorian, circular settlement in the vicinity - traces of which have been lost over time.)
The size of the large baray suggests that it was associated with a settlement rather than a specific sanctuary. Such features are commonly, albeit not exclusively, seen on the northern side of settlements. Elsewhere, field patterns on the west and southeast sides of the present-day town point to a slightly elongated, north-south settlement area corresponding closely to modern Ban Khok Muang. Mollerup, in Ancient Khmer Sites in North-eastern Thailand, suggests a more rigidly rectangular, typically Khmer, settlement south of and parallel to the baray forming a mirror image of the reservoir. He also notes that an outer enclosure at Prasat Muang Tam created an area precisely 1/3rd of the reservoir's area with two identical squares east of the temple, on the same axis, forming the rest of the city. This extends the settlement area eastwards nearly as far as the adjacent village Ban Bua. (Itself possessing an ancient reservoir, T31040.) Again, traces today are scant.
Speculatively then we have a pre-Angkorian, Dvaravati settlement on or close to the site of present-day Ban Khok Muang, with a later, rectangular addition south of the baray extending east from the village. As is generally the case, the arogyasala was situated just outside of the city to the north while an ancient route - now corresponding to Highway 3054 - connecting the site to a probably equally sizeable and important Khmer settlement at the eastern foot of Phanom Rung.
Map Location
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