Gwangnyeong Dolmen No. 1

A dolmen (jiseokmyo), also called a goindol, is a representative type of tomb from the Bronze Age, generally believed to have held members of a ruling class with wealth or political power. Korean dolmens are divided into the table-type, in which four support stones form a stone chamber topped with a huge, flat capstone, and the go-board type, in which a stone chamber is built underground with small support stones set beneath the capstone. The dolmen at Gwangnyeong-ri, Aewol-eup, in Bukjeju-gun has a capstone measuring 3.61m in length, 3.02m in width and 0.4m in thickness, making it one of the larger dolmens in the area. Support stones prop it up on the south, southwest and east sides; unlike the others, the southwestern support stone was smoothly shaped into a rectangular form before being set in place. The dolmens of Jeju Island include forms shared with those on the southern Korean mainland, as well as distinctive types found only on Jeju. Their most notable feature is that, although of the go-board type, the burial chamber is set above ground, and because the dolmens were built on sloping terrain, the shape of the support stones differs even within a single dolmen.

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Where it is

Region

Jeju City, Jeju

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물