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- Chaliang [ Chalieng ] is an ancient settlement which forms part of the total Si Satchanalai Historical Park. Here are the earlier monuments of Mon, Khmer and later Tai styles.
- The Chaliang Site area is small and the monuments valuable to see. The main
tourist sites here are, [1] the Chaliang City Wall, [2] Wat Phra Si
Ratana Mahathat, [3] Wat Chom Chuen, [4] Wat Noi Cham Pi and [5] Wat
Khok Cham Pi, [6] Wat Chao Chan, the Yom River landscapes and [8] Wat Noi.
- The Chaliang Fortifications. The ancient wall fortifications are earthen ramparts and laterite structures. They line the Yom River top embankments. Historians are not certain when the earthen ramparts were first built but archaeologists suggest they are pre Sukhothai period. The laterite walls were added later.
- Wat Phra Si Ratana Mahathat
- Wat Chao Chan. Wat Chao Chan was named after Prince Chan is a 12th C Khmer style building. It is a laterite Prasat in the Khmer tradition with a chamber designed to house an image. The site also contained Dvaravati period [ 6th to 9th C ] artifacts and unearthed fragments. The Prasat is a small building with porches on each side and a door way on the east side. This doorway has a double undecorated pediment or archway. On the other three sides these are duplicated but the doors are false as is often the case with Khmer architecture elsewhere in Thailand. The upper portion of the Prasat has the traditional corn shaped cob structure with graduated tiers diminishing in size upwards.
- Wat Chom Chuen. Wat Chom Chuen is approximately 400 meters east of Mahathat and consists of laterite ruins on a site which was first inhabitied in the 3rd or 4th C. Beneath the top soil some 7 meters deep was discovered an ancient burial site with skeletons and bronze tools. There is an on site museum containing these prehistoric burials and excavated objects. The laterite ruins are of the Sukhothai period and include the Mandapa with door and porch on the east side and a two tired roof still in good condition to the rear. To the front is the remains of the laterite assembly hall and the stupa base, also made of laterite.
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