Wat Udom

Terrain

General Condition

Wat Udom is an abandoned archaeological site that has been excavated. restoration and improve the landscape Located in the city of Chiang Saen in the center of the city to the south. There are archaeological sites nearby, Archaeological Sites No. 12 and No. 26 on the north side.

This ancient site was originally a desolate place. There is a general cover of weeds. The condition of the area is an ancient hill. It looks like a square mound. The length axis lies in the east-west axis.

Height above mean sea level

Waterway

Mekong River

Geological conditions

Chiang Saen is located on the west bank of the Mekong River. in the Chiang Saen Plain, which is a large plain formed by the deposition of sediments especially sand gravel In the Quaternary Era

Archaeological Era

era/culture

Archaeological age

Mythological age

Types of archaeological sites

archaeological essence

According to local Chiang Saen legend, Wat Udom was built by Muen Udom. The nobles who ate the city of Chiang Saen in the year 2029, first built consisted of a viharn 7 wa wide, 12 wa long, a chedi 3 wa wide, 7 cubits high.

This ancient site was originally a desolate place. There is a general cover of weeds. The condition of the area is an ancient hill. It looks like a square mound. The length axis lies in the east-west axis.

The Fine Arts Department excavated Wat Udom in 2006 and found a building that was assumed to be a viharn and a mondop.

The Temple There is a rectangular plan, reducing the front porch, positioned in the east-west axis. facing east There is a Mondop connected to the base of the viharn at the back. There was probably a wall around it, but evidence was found only in the north.

Mondop There is a rectangular schematic. Construction next to the end of the temple

Found construction to add to the ancient site 3 times, the first time a rectangular viharn. and there is a Mondop behind it. The second time, the Chukchi base was added and the temple base was enlarged. with the floor on the building slightly higher and build a wall or a courtyard around the mondop The last part was extended to extend the front porch with a glass wall or another courtyard surrounding the temple.

From the found building patterns and antiquities, it is assumed that This archaeological site was built around the 19th-20th Buddhist century and continued to be used or added until the beginning of the 22nd-23rd Buddhist century and then abandoned.