It is a name of kampung situated in Padasuka village, Cimenyan subdistrict, kabupaten Bandung. Commonly like in other kampong in Java, there are several Moslem cemeteries here, but one cemetery that I found accidentally in the middle of 2004 was interesting. On the basis of geological map of Bandung area (Silitonga, 1973), the kampung Pager-sari is situated on the Quaternary undifferentiated old volcanic products (Qvu).
This cemetery is situated on the first terrain about 821 meter above sea level; its geographical position is S 06° 52′ 55.9″; E 107° 39′ 12.4″. The morphological situation of this site in north-south section can be seen here. Toward the north, I saw the large ditch and paddy field. While toward the south, there is a second terrain about 165 cm below the first one, paddy field and rural road. From the first terrain to the direction of N30°E, we can see, what local people mention it as, the hill of Caringin-Tilu. In addition, several pieces of obsidian were found from the surrounding site’s area.
The number of cemetery in this site is few. According to local person (Mr.Tatang a head of Rukun Tetangga), it is a familial cemetery of Aki (Sundanese means grandfather) Asnawi. But, the interesting point of this site is the existence of antique-liked cemetery about 5 meter north of Moslem cemetery. This cemetery is situated between three big trees that are (in local name): jajawai, caringin and koang. Its existence is remarked by the dispersion of stones in the direction of N289°E. The size of stone is varied, between 22-49 cm length; 22-50 cm wide and 5-10 cm thick. At a glance, these stones are similar to batu-nisan (gravestone).When I visited this place on January 31, 2014 I saw the tree “jajawai” has already been cut down. According to Mr.Asep, he cut down this tree recently because obsolete.
According to Mr.Swedhi Hananta from the Balai Pelestarian Peninggalan Purbakala (office of preservation for archaeological remain) Serang (Banten) when his team (Mr.Aan Juharno & Mr.Umar) visited this site on May 2009, this suspected old cemetery may be still in the period of Islam. Again from Mr.Tatang, I got the information this cemetery is linked to the familial cemetery of Aki (Sundanese means grandfather) Kamar; the pioneer of slash and burn’s activity on the surrounding of this area in the past.
On the surrounding of the site we can find various trees among them are (in local name) suren, randu, alpuket, ki rapet, kanesta, kayu ambon and tisuk. According to Mr.Ujang Sudrajat (local people to whom has a house adjacent to the site), the root of ki rapet is commonly used by local people for handle of knife because it contains powerful natural glue. The leave of tisuk is usually applied for wrapping a traditional Sundanese food, so called, peuyeum.
On July 2006, I got a piece of recent animal bone from the site and I labeled it as JA-22. This piece of bone contains carbon (9.3%), nitrogen (2.3%) and fluorine (0.104%).
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