Gwangnyeong Dolmen No. 3

Dolmens are the representative tombs of the Bronze Age, also known as goindol, and are known to have mainly been the tombs of a ruling class with economic wealth or political power. Korean dolmens are divided into the table type, in which four supporting stones are set up to 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 supporting stones set up before the capstone is placed on top. This dolmen, set into a stone wall in Gwangnyeong-ri, Aewol-eup, Bukjeju County, has a capstone that has split in half and toppled onto the sloping ground, with no supporting stones now visible. It appears originally to have stood in the middle of a field and to have been pushed aside when the field was brought under cultivation. The capstone is rectangular, in the go-board form; its upper surface is flat but heavily worn, and is densely covered with small square cup-marks (seonghyeol), hollows made to pray for a good harvest or for the birth of children.

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Where it is

Region

Jeju City, Jeju

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물