香港龙鼓滩煮盐炉及其堆积分析

An Analysis of Salt Furnaces and Briquetage in Lung Kwu Tan,Hong Kong

20世纪初,法国东部塞耶河谷(Seille Valley)等一批古代制盐遗址的发掘,开始了盐业考古的先河。20世纪六七十年代以来,盐业考古逐渐成为西方考古学的研究热点,并引起许多其他国家或地区对这一领域的关注~①。香港盐业考古的研究起步较晚,开展至今不过10年时间,伴随着盐业考古学研究的深入,近年来更多中国内地和世界的盐业考古信息展示在了香港考古界面前.

Hong Kong Antiquities and Monuments office conducted a rescue archaeological excavation in Lung Kwu Tan in 1999.8 stoves were excavated and recorded in the excavation.The location of these stoves formed a straight line with 8m intervals.The openings of these stoves were 2 to 2.5m in diameter.Besides red fired clay fragments,no pottery or other artefact was found inside the stove.According to stove K4 that had been under autopsy,traces of more than 2 times of repairs were identified and this might implied that the stove had been used for a long period of time.Stoves and fired clay fragments in similar kind could also been found in more than 60 archaeological sites in Hong Kong dated from the six dynasties to Tang dynasty.Resemble fire clay fragments,Briquetage were also unearthed from salt boiling sites in Europe,Vietnam and Zhejiang province of China.It was then believed that these stoves discovered in Lung Kwu Tan was also salt furnaces,an alignment of the salt furnaces in Lung Kwu Tan could be regarded as a boiling workshop of a saltern.