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Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen Sites

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華城 Hwaseong Fortress ('06.12) 高敞、和順、江華の支石墓群 Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa Dolmen Sites ('06.12) スペイン Spain
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Of these Korean dolmen sites, I only visited the big one at Ganghwa Island (near Seoul). No entrance fee there, though the dolmen is placed in a little park and there is the ubiquitous soft
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To simply get there, and to enjoy the Ganghwa landscape was the most interesting part of my visit. The dolmen itself is just 3 stones put on top of each other. I have seen those before in
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1238; it was never rebuilt, but was occupied by more than a hundred families, who were relocated in 1976. Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen Sites Dolmens are megalithic funerary monuments, which are numerous in Asia, Europe, and North Africa of which Korea has the greatest concentration. These are of great
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昌徳宮 Changdeokgung Palace Complex ('06.12) 華城 Hwaseong Fortress ('06.12) 高敞、和順、江華の支石墓群 Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa Dolmen Sites ('06.12) スペイン Spain
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Japan 306 Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen Sites The prehistoric cemeteries at Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa contain many hundreds of examples of dolmens - tombs from the 1st millennium B.C. constructed of large stone slabs. They
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