Naedong-ri Dolmen

Dolmens (jiseokmyo), also called goindol, are the representative tombs of the Bronze Age and are known chiefly as the tombs of a ruling class with wealth or political power. Korean dolmens fall into two main types: the table-style, in which four supporting stones form an aboveground burial chamber topped by a huge, flat capstone, and the go-board-style, in which the burial chamber is dug underground and small supporting stones beneath the capstone raise it only slightly above the surface. This group originally stood in Jinjam, Daedeok-gu, and was moved to Wonnae-dong, Yuseong-gu, in August 1977; it comprises three go-board-style dolmens and one table-style dolmen. The capstone of go-board-style dolmen No. 1 is 3.25 m long and 1.86 m wide. The capstone of No. 2 is 2.42 m long and 1.7 m wide, and that of No. 3 is 3.5 m long and 1.6 m wide; none of their underlying structures survive. The capstone of table-style dolmen No. 4 is triangular and 3.5 m long, and only two of its supporting stones remain. Plain coarse pottery and two triangular stone arrowheads were excavated here, suggesting the dolmens were built in the late Bronze Age.

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Where it is

Region

Yuseong-gu, Daejeon

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물