🏺 Megalithic Jar Sites in Xiengkhuang – Plain of Jars, Site 52
Iron Age funerary landscape in northern Laos
📋 Fast Facts
- Iron Age site dating to 500 BCE – 500 CE
- One of 15 core protected jar clusters in the UNESCO World Heritage designation (2019)
- Jars range 1–3 meters tall and weigh several tons each
- Carved from sandstone, limestone, granite, and conglomerate
Site 52 is one of the remoter and less-visited clusters within the Megalithic Jar Sites of Xiengkhuang – Plain of Jars UNESCO World Heritage Site in northern Laos. Located in the rugged Xiengkhuang Plateau at approximately 1,000 meters elevation, it contains dozens of massive stone jars scattered across a natural landscape of fields, hillsides, and valleys. The site exemplifies the wider distribution and archaeological diversity of the plain's jar culture beyond the more famous Site 1 and Site ...