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A bronze drum has just been discovered at Nuoc Trong Hill, Hamlet No. 8, An Trung commune, An Lao district.
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Decorated surface of the newly-discovered Dong Son bronze drum
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The artifact was buried with surface downwards, body and base upwards. The surface and the body were 26.5 cm in diameter, 3mm in thickness. The tympanum bore 4 concentric panels. The innermost panel depicted stylized animals. The second panel had circles with a dot at their centre. The circles were linked together with lines. The third panel was decorated with comb teeth pattern. The outermost panel had zigzag designs. The body, base and barrel of the specimen were broken.
It was the 17th drum discovered in Binh Dinh and the 2rd drum in An Trung commune, An Lao district. It has been displayed at the Binh Dinh Museum.
All the drums found in Binh Dinh were buried at hill tops, along big rivers or at lower section of a river and were placed in cist tombs.
The decorated patterns on the surface and the depiction on other parts of the drum revealed that it existed approximately between the 3rd century BC and the 1st century AD.
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