Yongdam-dong Seonsa Tomb Site

These tombs are distributed in two groups, north and south, divided by a long line of stones running through the middle. In the southern area, three oval stone-lined tombs (seokgwakmyo) were investigated. All the artefacts recovered were found in the crevices of the stones and on the floor of the tombs, and include pottery with a hole pattern (gumeongmuni pottery), pottery with a notched rim (golagari pottery), and burnished pottery in black or blackish brown. In the northern area, seven jar-coffin tombs (ongwanmyo) and one stone-lined tomb were investigated; the jar-coffin tombs are irregularly distributed, while the stone-lined tomb lies slightly to the east. All the jar coffins are surrounded by small broken stones, and comprise both the joined type, in which a larger and a smaller reddish-brown jar are fitted together, and the single-jar type, in which one jar is buried at an angle or vertically. The excavated pottery and ironware were recovered not only from inside the stone-lined tomb but also from the gaps between the stones piled around the jar-coffin tombs. The construction date of the site differs between the two areas divided by the line of stones. The southern area, based on the excavation of late-stage Jeju Island hole-patterned pottery, is dated to around the third to first centuries BC, while the northern area is estimated to date from the late first century to the mid-second century AD. The Yongdam-dong Seonsa Tomb Site is a place where a new group possessing iron implements later established a communal burial ground, set apart from the earlier burial area of the group that had used hole-patterned pottery; it provides valuable material for understanding both the interrelations and the social transformation of ancient society, not only in this area but across Jeju Island as a whole.

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Where it is

Region

Jeju City, Jeju

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물