Seosan Dundang-ri Dolmen

Dolmens are the representative tombs of the Bronze Age, also called goindol, and are known mainly as the tombs of a ruling class holding economic wealth or political power. Korean dolmens are divided into the table type, in which four support stones are set upright 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 support stones, covered with a lid stone and topped with a capstone. The Seosan Dundang-ri Dolmen stands on a low hill in Dundang-ri, Seosan. Originally there were two dolmens, but one was destroyed and lost during the Japanese colonial period, and the surviving dolmen is said to have been looted at that time as well. In form it is a go-board type dolmen; the capstone measures 3.8m in length and 3.0m in width, and it has three support stones. Plain coarse pottery, red burnished pottery, stone knives and stone arrowheads were excavated from the dolmen.

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Where it is

Region

Seosan, Chungnam

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물