Geumsan Yonghwa-ri Dolmen

Geumsan Yonghwa-ri Dolmen is an unclassified megalithic tomb in Yonghwa-ri, Jrewon-myeon, Geumsan-gun, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea. It was designated Chungcheongnam-do Cultural Heritage Material No. 336 on March 6, 1995.

Three dolmens stand in a line on a hill, but all are badly damaged and only their capstones remain. The second, beside a field, appears to have been damaged by cultivation, and even its chamber stone was split. The original form is difficult to determine, although the absence of traces of supporting stones suggests a table type. The capstones are oval or square and relatively small, measuring about 150–280 cm.

The site is dated by typological estimate to 700 BCE to 300 BCE. More than 20 stone knives and stone arrowheads are reported to have been found nearby. The surrounding land is now occupied by reclaimed fields or graves. The area of the dolmens has also been reduced by farming and the construction of graves.

Dolmens are especially numerous on the Korean Peninsula, which is said to contain about 40,000, or approximately 40 percent of the world’s total. Known in Korean as goindol, or “propped stone,” they generally mark the graves of the ruling elite and are mainly distributed along the west coast and major rivers. Finds associated with such tombs include pottery, comma-shaped jewels, bronzes and stone tools.

Geumsan Yonghwa-ri Dolmen is a megalithic tomb (unclassified) in South Chungcheong, South Korea. Wikidata describes it as: cultural heritage. A typological estimate: 700 BCE to 300 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the Korean article "금산 용화리 고인돌", shown in the original language.