四川省郫县古城遗址调查与试掘

Tentative Excavation of a City Site at Pixian, Sichuan

郫县距成都市区西北约22公里,位于成都平原的中心,地势由西北向东南倾斜,属岷江支流的青白江、走马、柏条、徐堰等河流纵贯全境。古城遗址位于郫县县城北约8公里的三道堰镇古城村和梓路村,其北去3.2公里为青白江,南距2.5公里有柏条河。地理位置为东经105°55′,北纬30°54′,海拔约565米(图一)。遗址区地面存有一周较完整的城垣,呈长方形,土筑,夯层可见。方向120°。约长620、宽490米,面积约30.4万平方米。其中北垣约宽8～30、高1～2.8,西垣约宽16～40、高1.1～3.8,南垣约宽8～35、高1～5,

The site is located about 22km northwest of Chengdu in the heart of the Chengdu Plain. The well-preserved rammed earthen walls, 620 long and 490 wide, are left of the city. Archaeologists surveyed and dug the site on a tentative basis in November 1996. Theydiscovered 13 ash pits, 1 ash trench and 3 house foundations. The walls themselves, howev-er, have undergone excavation. Of the unearthed relics, the sandy and clay pottery aremostly wheel-made, and have different decorations and diversified forms, such as the flatbottom vessel and ring-foot vessel. The stone objects are mainly polished tools. Culturally, the site falls under the same category, i. e., the 'Baodun culture', with theBaodun site at Xinjin. Mang site. at Dujiangyan and the Yuhucun at Wenjiang. all recentlydiscovered in the Changdu Plain. The walls seem to be from the same period, since the pot-sherds found in their rammed earth are identical with those relics mentioned above.