湖北钟祥肖家冲墓地M8、M9发掘简报

Brief Report of Tombs M8 and M9 at the Xiaojiachong Cemetery in Zhongxiang City of Hubei Province

2022年9~12月,为配合沪渝蓉高速铁路工程建设,湖北省文物考古研究院等单位对肖家冲墓地进行了抢救性发掘,共清理东周墓葬125座。M8、M9是此次发掘中收获较大的两座墓葬,为战国晚期同茔异穴夫妇合葬墓。根据墓葬规模和随葬品多寡,推测M8墓主身份为士一级贵族。两墓对研究战国晚期楚国墓葬制度、楚国与吴越地区的文化交流具有重要价值。

From September to December 2022,in order to support the construction of the Shanghai-Chongqing-Chengdu High-Speed Railway project,the Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology,in collaboration with related museums,conducted a salvage excavation at the Xiaojiachong Cemetery.A total of 125 tombs dating to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty were cleared up.Among them,tombs M8 and M9 are double burials,with a husband and wife in separate graves,dating to the late Warring States period.Given the size of the tombs and the nature of burial goods,we infer that the occupant of tomb M8 held the status of a"shi"(a high-ranking official).These two tombs are of great value in studying Chu-style burials of the Chu state as well as cultural exchanges between the Chu state and the Wu Yue region during the late Warring States period.