Haenam Yeonjeong-ri Dolmen Group

Dolmens are a representative tomb type of the Bronze Age, also called goindol, and are known chiefly as the graves of a ruling class who held economic wealth or political power. Korean dolmens are divided into the table type, in which four supporting stones are raised 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. These dolmens stand on level ground at the foot of Sambongsan Mountain in Haenam. Around a large central dolmen, forty-eight smaller dolmens are gathered in a roughly triangular group. The largest dolmen measures 5 m, with nineteen measuring 3 m or more and five measuring 4 m or more, a scale that sets this group apart from dolmens elsewhere. Supporting stones were found at twenty-nine of the forty-eight dolmens, showing that the go-board type predominates here; among the dolmens of 4 m or more, nine or ten supporting stones are arranged running around beneath the capstone. This can be seen as a regional characteristic found along the west coast. The Haenam Yeonjeong-ri Dolmen Group is a representative dolmen group of the west coast, with forty-eight dolmens gathered within a small area in the typical go-board form, and it is valued as important material for the study of dolmens.

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Where it is

Region

Haenam, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물