湖北谷城县肖家营墓地

Xiaojiaying Cemetery in Gucheng County,Hubei

湖北谷城县肖家营墓地肖家营墓地位于南河北岸的淤积平地上。1999年5～6月,在此地发掘砖室墓葬72座,以东汉墓为主,另有少量六朝、隋、唐、宋墓。出土的随葬品包括较多陶、瓷器,以及少量铜、铁、银、玉、石器和不同种类的铜钱。此墓地中墓葬数量较多,分布密集,延续时间长,对研究东汉至唐宋时期谷城的历史具有重要意义。

The Xiaojiaying cemetery lies on the deposited level ground of the northern bank of the Nanhe River. There, 72 brick-chambered tombs were excavated in May to June 1999. Most of them belong to the Eastern Han period, and the rest are burials of the Six Dynasties, Sui, Tang and Song periods. The unearthed funeral objects are largely pottery and porcelain; bronze, iron, silver, jade and stone artifacts were yielded in a small number; and copper coins were found to be of various types. Great in number, dense in arrangement and wide in temporal range, these tombs are of great importance to researching into the history of Gucheng from the Eastern Han to the Tang-Song period. Among them a Six Dynasties period grave provided valuable material for studying ancient burial custom for it is rather large in scale and yielded bricks with various designs and pictorial data.