An antique-liked cemetery was found accidentally on October 2004 when I was searching the obsidian remains. It was located in kampung Merak-dampit, Cimenyan village, kecamatan Cimenyan, kabupaten Bandung. But, according to Mr.Eman the person who met me at Al Luqman’s mosque on May 2009, this site was situated in kampung Pesanggrahan-Patenggang. Furthermore, he told about the history of the site in brief.
Geologically, the site is situated in the valley of the Quaternary undifferentiated old volcanic products (Qvu) (Silitonga, 1973). Its geographical position is S 06° 51′ 15.8″ and E 107° 40′ 45.9″ at 1179 meter above sea level. In the north-east and west-east section we can see that the site is located on the small hill surrounded by corn’s field. Furthermore, fragmental obsidians scatter on the other hills around the site.
The suspected old cemetery is represented by the earth mound; ellipse in form, making the direction of N60°E and its size as follows: 4.8 m length, 3.4 m width and 45 cm height. There are four menhir stands in each angle of earth mound. Its sizes are diverse between14-35 cm width; 45-65 cm height and 3-12 cm thick. There are also two menhir places about 2.8 m in distance along its longest axis. In addition, there are three big trees arrange on the surrounding of the earth mound; one in the north and two in the east.
According to Mr.Swedhi Hananta from the Balai Pelestarian Peninggalan Purbakala (office of preservation for archaeological remain) Serang (Banten) when his team visited (Mr.Aan Juharno & Mr.Umar) this site on May 2009, this suspected old cemetery may be still in the period of Islam because the direction of earth mound is close to north-south alignment. Meanwhile, Mr.Eman said that it was considered had a link to Eyang Jayadirega from Cirebon. So far, we haven’t yet known whether this earth mound is a real cemetery or just –what local people say as- a patilasan or kabuyutan?
On the surrounding of the site we can find a variety of shrub such as krinyuh and lantana kamara. The latter has flower and fruit. Its flower and fruit have a diameter about 3 cm and 0.5 cm respectively. Fruit of lantana kamara is sweet and usually consumed by local bird. Meanwhile, local people use the leave for avocado’s fermentation.
