IN SAND STONE REUNGIT milestone SUMEDANG

Proverb says, different depths of the other fish, the other other fields it is also locusts ", is the maxim that show the expression of how sharp our ancestors in a variety of problems revealed customs of each region in various areas (islands) of this archipelago. Consciously or unconsciously that phrase is actually a reflection of actions very carefully when we go to, or assess other areas in society and cultural environment that is multiethnic show how different well in both the process of element formation and freezing traditional.

Speaking phenomenon heritage cultural activities in Tatar Sunda (BCB), directly opposite to the fundamental epistemological problems. Do we start from the belief that theoretical ideas in social science knowledge of universal culture, such as natural science or attached to the culture in which the idea of planned? Or should be forwarded to the question "whether the culture of a society or individual or social group is a biological system in its citizens so that an understanding of social and biophysical environment should be considered a uniform?"
Or did each citizen has its own understanding that is not necessary and not necessarily the same from one citizen to another citizen? Like the old saying says sabumi feature that suggests ways sadesa very deep understanding that each community supporters to develop a culture in the archipelago of organic completeness supra or equipment which is non-corporeal manifestation of the active response to the environment. Environmental variation in different regions cause a variety of ways to understand, predict and assess the environment and determine the value and vital ideas that guide the behavior patterns of members of the community.

In order to identify the site though, either in or understood by the general or to the realization that more formal (academic), should be in view and in accordance align the cultural background of each natural and cultural environment supporting cultural time frame. As is generally the archipelago, Tatar Sunda society since before the Tarumanagara to the presence of innovation, intimate and independent with the characteristics of farming culture and beliefs device. Characteristic of farming culture is a strong orientation toward the natural environment and all its contents (fertility) and climate. Because the culture of farming communities to meet life directly involved with use of the natural environment, so try to get closer to the environment. Concept (pikukuh) maintenance of the earth with all its contents essentially symbolizes the relationship itself and its creator.

Mountain or Sand Rock Nangtung guest Reungit geographically (GPS) at the coordinates 06 degrees 51 '43 "- 51 degrees 43' South Latitude (LS) and 107 degrees 53 '59.9" East Longitude (E) elevation from sea level (asl ) 525 meters. Located in the Village Seulareuma (formerly Salareuma) occupies the highest of the surrounding land sandwiched between two other villages that fill the lower plains of Kampung Lebak Huni (west) and the village of Lebak Lagerstroemia (eastern).
Location in the reconciliation of a hill which the concerned residents called the sand (in Sundanese means small mountain of sand) in the mountainous environment Hills South Sumedang comprising Nangtung Mountain or Sand, Sand Mountain or female friend, Sand coffin, Mountain or Sand Ciguling, Mountain or Sand Mountain Palasari and Palasari. Hills in the neighborhood until now there's an ancient tomb in Jagabhaya Grandmother Sacred Mountain or Sand Nangtung and Batukorsi (Stonesit) or Sand Mountain Ciguling.

Mountain or Sand Rock Nangtung guest Reungit is one of the hills in the South Sumedang environment now explore the conditions on the slopes and walls, especially the southern hills. Excavation was related to the mining business resources home building materials and tools daily. About fifty percent of the land south of the hill was opened by the result of deliberate stripping by the company concerned, and shows a large boulder with a specific form of a large number of milestones with a spectacular size.

From the brief note about the Mountain or Sand Rock Reungit guest Nangtung given a named Rochman who visited on October 17, 2002. On the basis of what information has seen the interviews with the elders of the local residents named Aki Jenar (87 years). In addition to rock milestone on the Mountain or Sand Rock Reungit found Nangtung guest of the tunnel that pierces cipeles to Reungit Sand, in the tunnel there terrace steps leading up the hill and serves as a gateway.

Mentioned by Aki Jenar to Rochman that in each month (Islam) and the month of Rajab Mawlood particularly in a Friday night at the top of Sand Mountain or Reungit often appeared light shining like neon lights. So, Rochman added at the end of his notes that the Sand Mountain or Reungit is "site": 1) there is a miracle of light on the highest land or Sand Mountain Reungit; 2) there is a hole in the form of a tunnel from the river to cipeles right through the pile location, square stone man-made.
Same information obtained from residents named Sukandar (43 years), when his father was still alive (Juned bin Juned died age 74 years) tells Reungit Mountain or Sand Rock Nangtung original guest house in the jungle began digging and stones contain milestone and when the year 1954 clear land for agriculture. In the area of land south of Sand Mountain or Rock Reungit guest Nangtung highway cut-Bandung Sumedang have irrigation (river) in order to irrigate land Cipeles settlements and paddy fields Seulareuma Village residents. Among the irrigation to the land there Reungit Sand tunnel through the soil down to the inside of the Mountain or Sand Rock Nangtung guest Reungit.

Conditions which have been shown Reungit Sand Mountain or have the contents of natural resources in the form of stone pillar in the large amount when the dig so neatly arranged position, type of andesite rock hard and solid, and black. Thus, the present problems, whether or Sand Mountain Rock Nangtung guest Reungit this man's work (artifacts) or present only because of natural phenomena? Problems that still await an answer is the identification of the Mountain or Sand Rock Nangtung guest Reungit with content across a suspicious resources that, if anything to do with the legacy of cultural activity called the site or should be viewed as a natural phenomenon of geological processes alone?

Excavations in the Mountain or Sand content Reungit with natural resources in the form of blocks of andesite-shaped stone pillars with large size and sturdy have shown that approximately 50%. Some of the stones of the dig in the yard lay a claim to the land owner that is Ade Rahmawati (30 years), the only building that houses on the slopes of sand reungit; most others are still in place (according intax matrix).
A large number of stones that have been found before in the mines make use of the building other than the locals made their home building materials, as well as to refute the river bank (Cipeles). Utilization milestone stones either by companies or local communities because of the stone is very good with high hardness capacity and not easily broken even in the smash and the drop hard. Size spectacular with this heavy weight caused the owners to use heavy machinery and bulldozers are big that is until now parked in his yard.

When observed closely, pillar stones have almost the same shape but with the height and diameter vary. Pillar stones that still lie intact in place, plays as if deliberately organized and lined up against a wall (slope) or Sand Mountain Reungit with a likely order tilted 60 degrees east rah circumstances. From the observation of stone pillars that have been on the move and was in the courtyard houses, the lower end of the body (which is attached to the ground) flat shape as is the cut while the tip of the stone pillar body facing upward cone shaped like a deliberately false in a rough cut. Length of pole stones ranging from 7-8 meters, while the diameter of 60-70 cm.

On the slopes of Mount or Sand Rock Reungit guest Nangtung andesite gravel lay some still neatly arranged like the floor and partly scattered gravel mixed (kericak). Behind walls of stone pillars in order to find other arrangements such as the composition of the rock layer cake that fills the inside of the Mountain or Sand Reungit.

Land on top of stone structure covered with soil by solid particles of about 50 cm from the boundary stone structure, followed by a stretch of sand on the surface. The southern region or Sand Mountain Rock Nangtung guest Reungit approximately 1-1.5 miles of flowing river called Cipeles, the river flows into the east-west direction and empty into Cimanuk. Between the wall street (Sumedang-Bandung) and the river is a river Cipeles irrigated land as well as the boundary of Mount or Reungit Sand Rock Nangtung guest. In this area found a hole in the tunnel (tunnel diameter 80-100 cm), although large in size enough to enter the men, but it has now been filled land and even the likes of water and inhabited by animals that are difficult to observe. Results from observation Reungit Mountain or Sand Rock Nangtung show guest:

a. Intax open land attached to the matrix and which is not possible in dipindahtempatkan or change by humans.

b. Contains alamsangat resource potential of andesite stone from a very hard material, also from various forms of which form milestones in very many meets hill, gravel and pebbles with a large number, content of sand and soil.

c. Mountain or Sand Reungit located in mountainous or hilly neighborhood that still includes the plateau mountain range Parahyangan.

d. Nearby, a large river flows flowing into the Cipeles Cimanuk.

Meanwhile, mentioned Reungit Mountain or Sand Rock Nangtung no more a guest house environment containing rocks, soil, water and plants as a natural resource is needed by humans to meet their needs. Natural resources are not created or made by humans, but regarding the efforts and business life in the arts and traditions that exist.