Yeongam Hermitage Eomgil-ri Dolmen Group

Dolmens are the representative tombs of the Bronze Age, also known as goindol, and are understood mainly as the graves of a ruling class holding economic wealth or political power. Korean dolmens are divided into the table type, in which four supporting stones are set upright to form a stone chamber topped by a single huge, flat capstone, and the go-board type, in which a stone chamber is built underground with small supporting stones set beneath a covering slab, over which a massive capstone is then placed. In Eomgil-ri, Seoho-myeon, Yeongam County, a total of eighteen go-board-type dolmens are distributed widely in two rows. A partial excavation by the Mokpo National University Museum in 1984 revealed the structure and character of the dolmens. A variety of artefacts were found inside and around them, including plain coarse pottery (mumun ware), stone arrowheads, triangular stone knives, grooved stone adzes and whetstones; the discovery of a fragment of a slender bronze dagger is particularly notable as the first such find inside a dolmen in Korea.

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Where it is

Region

Yeongam, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물