湖北荆州八岭山冯家冢楚墓2011-2012年发掘简报

The Excavation of the Fengjiazhong Cemetery of the Chu State at Balingshan in Jingzhou, Hubei in 2011-2012

冯家冢墓地位于湖北省荆州市荆州区（原江陵县）八岭山林场，是一处战国时期楚国高等级贵族陵园。在2011年的考古勘探工作结束后，荆州博物馆对冯家冢墓地进行第一次考古发掘。

In October 2011 to December 2012, Jingzhou Museum conducted the first term of excavation to Fengjiazhong Cemetery, by which seven small-sized tombs of the Chu State in the Warring-States Period were recovered. All of these tombs were vertical earthen shaft pit tombs with the opening larger than the bottom, and the remains of mound built of light gray earth were seen at the openings. These tombs were orderly arranged, their sizes were similar, their orientations were the same and their intervals were even; all of these showed that this cemetery was carefully planned, the tombs of which were the attendant tombs of the Fengjiazhong Tombs nos. 1 and 2. This arrangement is very similar to that of the attendant tombs in Xiongjiazhong Cemetery in Jingzhou, and they would have been set following the same ritual system. A set of bronze-simulating pottery ritual vessels unearthed from one of these seven tombs （JBFBXM13） , including cling-tripod, dui-tureen, fou-jar, pan-basin and yi-pourer, had clear chronological characteristics belonging to the late stage of the early Warring-States Period to the early stage of the mid Warring-States. Referring to all of the features, the date of this cemetery could be also defined around the late stage of the early Warring-States to the early stage of the mid Warring-States Period.