[3]: 151–52 Non Mueang has been listed as an ancient site of Khon Kaen Province since it was discovered in 1970.

[4] However, only the southeast side of the outer moat survives; the rest has been filled in and destroyed, but the furrows remain visible from overhead views.

The presence of a large moat indicates that the city was the center of smaller communities in the area.

[1] Archaeological surveys and excavations performed in 1970, 1982–83, and 1991–92[1] found the site was inhabited since the prehistory era; 17 human skeletons dated 2,500 years were burial with tools, and utensils, such as pots and pottery containers with both painted and scratched designs and rope-marked designs, as well as bronze bracelets, animal bone bracelets, shells, colored stone beads, etc.

These pottery pieces were either red painted, scratched, or rope-patterned in the soil layers of the Dvaravati period (7th-10th centuries).