济南市章丘区东平陵城遗址铸造区2012年发掘简报

Brief Report on the 2012 Excavation of the Iron Foundry District at the Dongpingling City Site in Zhangqiu District,Jinan City

东平陵城位于山东省济南市章丘区龙山镇闫家村北,其西南2公里为城子崖遗址。城址地处泰沂山北麓,黄河在其西北约35公里处流过,东约20公里为长白山,南约20公里为泰沂山脉,地势自东南向西北倾斜,平均海拔约54米(图一)。城内地势平坦,四周城墙保存较好。城内铸造区位于遗址分区的第五区,临近城址的西门,位于东西大道的南侧。2009年东平陵城考古队对铸造区进行了第一次发掘[1],2012年9~12月又进行了第二次发掘,共布5米×5米的探方28个,实际发掘面积426平方米。布方位置位于2009年发掘区的西部(图二)。现将本次发掘的情况简报如下。

Excavation of the iron foundry district at the Dongpingling city site in Zhangqiu District,Jinan City was conducted in 2012.It yielded various features including furnaces,midden pits,water storage ponds,and midden ditches.Unearthed artifacts consist of furnace fragments,bellow nozzles,blooms,iron plates,iron lumps,iron wires,broken iron objects,as well as iron tools such as nails,hoes,hammers,and adzes.This foundry,made up of six furnaces and related features,was fi rst constructed during the late Western Han and in use all the way through the Eastern Han.The foundry at the Dongpingling city site was probably an iron-casting workshop,which processed raw materials imported from another region.