Okcheon Taenan-ri Dolmen

Okcheon Taenan-ri Dolmen, also known as Okcheon Stone Tomb, is a megalithic tomb in Seoktan-ri, Dong-i-myeon, Okcheon-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea. It is an unclassified dolmen dated by typological estimate to 700 BCE to 300 BCE.

The tomb was built in the table form, with supporting stones set on four sides and a long, flat capstone placed above them. Today, the front and back supporting stones have disappeared, leaving only the two side stones and the capstone. A standing stone in front of the dolmen was designated alongside it as a Chungcheongbuk-do memorial.

Artifacts found at the site included a whetstone, stone axes, stone knives, stone arrowheads, net sinkers, a perforated chisel, a face sculpture representing a woman, and pottery. Because most of these objects were associated with food preparation, the buried person was judged to have been a woman.

Dolmens were used as tombs during the Bronze Age in Korea. More generally, monuments of this kind in South Korea usually mark the graves of the ruling elite, and excavated finds commonly include pottery, comma-shaped jewels, bronzes, and stone tools. The precise role of the accompanying standing stone remains uncertain; it may have marked the dolmen or protected the tomb itself.

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