Goheung Jungsan-ri Dolmen Group

Dolmens are the representative tombs of the Bronze Age, commonly called goindol in Korean, and are known chiefly as the tombs of a ruling class with economic wealth or political power. Korea's dolmens are divided into the table type, in which four supporting stones are set up 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 supporting stones set beneath the capstone. This dolmen group, of the go-board type, lies at the foot of the mountain where a ridge of Cheonbongsan Mountain, running southwest, meets Boseong Bay in Goheung County, South Jeolla Province; some forty dolmens are arranged in rows running north-south along the foot of the mountain. A further five stand to the south, beyond a small boundary ditch, and to the north there are six more, including one dolmen set upright like a standing stone. The group is made up of a cluster of large dolmens: about fifteen have visible supporting stones, twenty-six sit flush with the ground so that no supporting stones can be seen, and six have a covering slab over the stone chamber exposed beneath the capstone. The largest dolmen carries a huge capstone measuring 5.5 m long and 4.6 m wide. With more than forty dolmens forming a large-scale group, the capstones here are well dressed and the site is in a relatively good state of preservation.

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Where it is

Region

Goheung, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물