Dolmen at Osangri

This dolmen like a perfect roundtable is located, on the hillside near Mt. koryo, at osangri, naegamyon, kanghwa island. You can find it on the hill at osangri on the way to 'Koindol restaurant'. ; 'Koindol' means dolmen in korean, but you can see just a house in the valley over the hill.

If you saw it at Mt. koryo, You would have mistaken it as a wild flat rock on the hill. It is just 85Cm high in all, but 3.8m by 3.4m in round pentagon shape and 50Cm thick capstone which looks like a shield is covered on the small prop stones, abnormally. There are 4 perfect prop stones, but one is broken in half at the south end. One of two supporting prop stones measures 2.3m by 1m and 20Cm thick, and so the coffin room is lying with facing to the northwest at 330 degrees, be at right angle to the direction of hill.

This type of dolmen is very special, I could never see another one like this, so I guess it which is a middle style of the change from the table style to the cover stone style in korea. If it were surrounded with some of gravels and earth, it should be seen as a dolmen of cover stone style.

I saw a cupmark on the cover stone, on which is often found just one cup at some dolmen with a table style, where can be touched by arm. Therfore I would like to think dolmen had constructed at first, and then someone carved it, I believe. (photos taken in Dec 1996, written in Jan 1997)

Dolmen at Shinsamri

This dolmel is already destroyed, but you can easy imagine the height of this one was no more than 1.5m. Normally the 2/5 parts of supporting prop stone put into the earth. Capstone measures 4m x 2.6m, and prop stone is 3m x 2m.
(photos taken in Dec 1996, written in Jan 1997)

Dolmens at Mt. Koryo (back of Semmal)

There are 6 dolmens on the hillside facing to the northwest of the Mt. koryo, which are far away 30 minutes from semmal (means pond village). But I could find five dolmens of them. All of them were inclined and uncovered, the largest one measures ; capstone is 3.2m x 1.5m, prop stone is 1.8m x 60Cm.

I have found the vestige be traced along the weaken parts of mineral matter like the glass (silica ?) on a very big rock on the downway at the west slope. It should be the cutting vestige for the making dolmen, I guess.
(photos taken in Dec 1996, written in Jan 1997)