Supporting stones are tilted 30° to the east and capstones were vertically positioned on the ground. 2 big upright stones were under the center of capstones and left and right upright stones remained. The size of capstones of this dolmen was 6.40m in length, 5.23m in width and 1.12m in thickness and its whole height was 2.45m. It was located within Ganghwa Dolmen Park at 317, Bugeun-ri, Hajeom-myeon and designated, protected and managed as Historic Site in 1964. 137) were dolmens familiar with us because it was included in elementary school textbook. The largest table-type dolmen in South Korea - Dolmens at Bugeun-riĭolmens at Bugeun-ri, known as Ganghwa dolmen (Historic Site No. Goryeo and there was the Geumgok river running into the sea. Table-type dolmens at Bugeun-ri were located at the land of 20~30m formed at the northern foot of the Mt. Dolmens at Gyosan-ri and Gocheon-ri were at the ridge and those at Bugeun-ri and Samgeo-ri were at flat land. Ganghwa dolmens showed very various distribution conditions like the foot of mountain, hill, flat land and ridge. Total 70 dolmens including 14 dolmens at Bugeun, 9 at Samgeo-ri, 20 at Gocheon-ri, 12 at Osang-ri, 13 at Gyosan-ri, 1 at Daesan-ri and 1 at Bugeun-ri were registered as the world heritage. It was historically important area as the island of estuary of the Han river. 127 dolmens were distributed at the northern foot of the Mt. Ganghwa dolmens were located at Bugeun-ri, Samgeo-ri, Gocheon-ri, Osang-ri, and Gyosan-ri, Hajeom-myeon, Ganghwa-gun, Incheon. 127 Dolmens Scattered on the Northern Foot of the Mt.
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