Haenam Yongduri Gobun

Haenam Yongduri Gobun, also called Malmudom, is a keyhole-shaped burial mound in Sang-ri, Samsan-myeon, Hae nam-gun, Jeollanam-do, South Korea. It is one of more than ten such mounds in the southern Korean Peninsula and was designated Jeollanam-do Monument No. 121 on December 21, 1986. It was excavated in 2008 by the National Gwangju Museum.

The mound is 41.3 meters long, with a rear circular section measuring 24.3 meters across and 5.2 meters high. Its front section is 17.5 meters wide and 3.8 meters high and faces southwest. Most of the mound consists of earth. Baekje-style pottery sherds were found on its surface, but no stepped construction or stone facing was identified. The burial chamber is a horizontal stone chamber with an entrance on the side, though it is now closed.

The stone chamber was built about 1 meter below the original ground surface and measures 3.43 meters long, 2.17-2.38 meters wide and 1.80 meters high. Its structure has been linked directly to northern Kyushu and the Ariake Sea coast, and it may also have received later work from the same group of craftspeople responsible for the Iwahashi Senzuka Kofun Cluster. Repeated looting scattered many grave goods, although pottery, beads and iron objects were recovered. The mound’s form and chamber indicate construction around the middle of the 6th century.

“Malmudom” is a local name meaning “horse’s tomb.” No earlier mound tradition is known from the surrounding area, so Yongduri Gobun appears suddenly in the local archaeological record. The coast is about 3 kilometers away, and a possible connection between its occupant and maritime travel has been raised. Three other mounds once stood 50 meters to the west but no longer survive.

Haenam Yongduri Gobun is a megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones) in South Korea. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the Japanese article "海南龍頭里古墳", shown in the original language.