Dolmen in Dajeong-ri, Namhae

A dolmen, known in Korean as jiseokmyo or goindol, is a representative type of tomb from the Bronze Age, thought to have mainly been the burial of a ruling class with economic 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, small support stones are placed, a cover stone is laid over it, and a huge capstone is then placed on top. Eleven dolmens stand along the rice-paddy embankments of a field here, spaced roughly 3–4 m apart. All are of the go-board type, with capstones measuring 3 m in length and 2 m in width. The underground substructure is not precisely known, but is presumed to be a box-shaped stone coffin. Fragments of plain, undecorated Bronze Age pottery have been found around the site. Besides these, dolmens are widely distributed throughout Namhae-gun, in places such as Nammyeon-ri, Pyeonghyeon-ri and Simcheon-ri, and they are regarded as important material for research into the Bronze Age culture of the region.

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Where it is

Region

Namhae, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물