Dolmen in Cheonggok-ri, Geoje

A dolmen (jiseokmyo), also known by its native Korean name goindol, is a representative tomb type of the Bronze Age and is generally believed to have been the burial of a ruling class with economic wealth or political power. Dolmens in Korea are divided into the table type, which has four supporting stones forming a stone chamber topped with a huge flat capstone, and the baduk-board (go-board) type, which has a stone chamber built underground with small supporting stones topped with a capstone. Along the national highway in Sadeung-myeon, Geoje, Gyeongsangnam-do, three baduk-board-type dolmens stand at intervals of about 50 metres. Dolmen No. 1, on a hill beside the highway, has a basalt capstone resting on two small supporting stones. According to legend, the village toward which the dolmen's head points will fall into ruin, and villagers once fought over which way to turn the stone's head; today, in a spirit of reconciliation, it has been turned to point midway between the villages. Dolmen No. 2 stands in the middle of a field 50 metres from the highway; its middle section has been destroyed and it lies buried in soil, making its substructure difficult to determine. Dolmen No. 3 stands at the entrance to Cheonggok Village, watching over it like a guardian spirit, and it is said that at Daeboreum, the first full moon of the lunar year, villagers used to hold a ritual called allakje there.

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Geoje, Gyeongnam

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료