Muang Phra Rot

Before reaching the former town of Muang Phra Rot, now an excavation site, a large pond is passed. Its laterite edging has Dvaravati-style animal pictures engraved into it. Muang Phra Rot was a town established by the Mons and protected by two earth walls with a ditch in between; their positions are still clearly evident. A leper colony was formerly housed in the town. Nearby are the ruins of several Hindu shrines; of note is the top of the roof of one which has the shape of an octagonal cupola, reminiscent of the Mamallapuramin temple in south-east India.