Bugok Dolmen

Dolmens, a representative tomb type of the Bronze Age also known as goindol, are generally understood to be the graves of a ruling class who held economic wealth or political power. Korean dolmens are classified into the table type, in which a stone chamber is formed by standing four support stones topped with a huge flat capstone, and the go-board type, in which a stone chamber is built underground with small support stones set beneath a capstone. This dolmen is of the go-board type, but without support stones: stone slabs serve both as supports and as the walls of a stone coffin, with the burial chamber set at ground level. The south-eastern wall of the stone coffin is missing; the north wall consists of three stone slabs, and the closing west wall is formed of a single slab. The capstone placed on top is rectangular, measuring 1.76 m in length and 0.75 m in width. It originally stood at a fork in the road leading into the Donghae Education Library (formerly Namho Elementary School), and a single half-moon-shaped stone knife was excavated there. The dolmen was moved in 1982 from Bugok-dong to a site in front of Donghae City Hall and Donghae City Council, and in 2017, for its safer management, it was relocated again to Guho Park, where the Chuam-dong tomb cluster is located.

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Where it is

Region

Donghae, Gangwon

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료