ubosot temple

Terrain

General condition

Wat Ubosot or Wat Bot is an abandoned ancient site. It is about 300 meters east of the Ping River, northeast of Wat Pa Poe. (Approximately 100 meters apart) condition before digging into a mound. which the villagers saw as a mound similar to the Ubosot Therefore called the temple Ubosot. or church temple

The area surrounding the ancient site is a private garden and houses a residential house.

Height above mean sea level

Waterway

Ping River

Geological conditions

It is a river basin area. was deposited with sand and gravel sediments. In the Holocene era

Archaeological Era

era/culture

Archaeological age

Types of archaeological sites

archaeological essence

The church is an ancient abandoned site. No information appears in any historical documents. The name of Wat Bot is the name from the villagers called by the ancient hill that looks like a church or a chapel. before being excavated from the Fine Arts Department Villagers have excavated this ancient site. Found a large number of amulets and religious objects in the archaeological site.

The Fine Arts Department has excavated the ancient monuments of Wat Bot in the year 1999 - 2000 (Department of Fine Arts 2005 :81 - 83).

ancient temple church consists of a temple and the pagoda

Architectural features

1. Vihara is a hall temple in a rectangular plan. Consists of 6 pairs of pillars, laterite bases The building has two gates at the front and one at the back as the Chukchi base for enshrining the principal Buddha image. The brick wall was found at the end of the viharn. There are stairs leading up to the front and both sides of the back room. wooden roof structure Thatched with clay tiles according to the style that was popularly built in Lanna around the 21st Buddhist century.

Viharn Wat Bos has overlapping construction in 2 periods, with the latter being filled with the outer space above the wooden base of the viharn base. while the floor inside the temple was not raised like the outside.

2. The chedi is located about 1.60 meters from the back of the viharn, remaining only the lower cutting board in the square plan. As a result of the excavation, it can be assumed that the pagoda form It is probably the castle on the top of the bell. The south and west sides of the pagoda Found 2 altars, the same altars found at ancient sites in Wiang Kum Kam. Age can be determined during the 20th - 22nd Buddhist century.

Artifacts found

Antiques found from excavation, including clay pots from Lampang kilns San Kamphaeng stove Wiang Kalong furnace source and Chinese wares of the Ming dynasty with finely ground white meat decorated with blue writing under the glaze and green lacquer (1911 - 2187)

Also found sandstone Buddha images. A stucco sculpture depicting the head of an angel in a royal uniform. That can be compared with the stucco sculpture of angels at Photharam Maha Maha Maha Wihan, Wat Chet Yod, which is in the early 21st Buddhist century, and also found a clay Buddha image in the style of the twelve monks Which is popularly built continuously from the Haripunchai period to the Lanna period.

Importantly, 10 bricks were found with inscriptions of the pod kham and Thai language. Most of them were in the 21st Buddhist century.

Determination of age

From the evidence that appears in both ancient sites and antiquities It is assumed that Wat Bot is probably built between the early 21st Buddhist century to the early 22nd Buddhist century.

Related inscription Bricks inscribed with Kham and Thai characters, 10 sheets, age in the 21st Buddhist century.