Changcheon Dolmen No. 1

Dolmens are the representative tombs of the Bronze Age in Korea, also known as megalithic tombs, and are known to have been mainly the graves of a ruling class who held economic wealth or political power. Korean dolmens are divided into the table-type, in which a stone chamber is formed by raising four support stones and placing a huge, flat capstone on top, and the go-board type, in which a stone chamber is built underground with small support stones set beneath the capstone. The dolmen in Changcheon-ri, Andeok-myeon, Namjeju-gun, stands on the boundary between two sloping fields. Its capstone, 2.5m long and 2.35m wide, is close to a square in shape, and tall support stones are wedged in at three points to keep it level. The south-eastern side is currently open, without a support stone, and inside the burial chamber one stone remains that appears to have served as a pillow stone for the body, along with several fragments of plain reddish-brown pottery. These finds confirm that the body in this dolmen was laid on the ground surface rather than buried. Jeju Island's dolmens include some forms shared with dolmens on mainland South Korea, but also special forms found only on Jeju. The most distinctive features of Jeju dolmens are that, although of the go-board type, their burial chambers are set above ground, and that because they were built on sloping ground, the support stones vary in form even within a single dolmen.

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Where it is

Region

Seogwipo, Jeju

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물