The Xindian city-site lies at Xindian village, Xindian town, Jin'an district in the northern suburb of Fuzhou city, Fujian province, and was excavated thrice from 1996 to 1999. The work included the trial digging ...The Xindian city-site lies at Xindian village, Xindian town, Jin'an district in the northern suburb of Fuzhou city, Fujian province, and was excavated thrice from 1996 to 1999. The work included the trial digging of the eastern, northern and western city-walls and the excavation to the southwest of the central area within the inner city. It brought to light iron-smelting furnace and tomb remains of the Warring States period, as well as pottery-making molds, iron slag, pottery vessels of the urn,fu cauldron, cup, jar, bu pot, basin and bo bowl and semi-cylindric tiles of that time. Judging from the structure of rammed earth and the ramming technique of the city-walls as well as the pottery from the rammed earth and the moat bottom, the city was first constructed in the late Warring States period and was expanded on a large scale in the early Han.展开更多
文摘The Xindian city-site lies at Xindian village, Xindian town, Jin'an district in the northern suburb of Fuzhou city, Fujian province, and was excavated thrice from 1996 to 1999. The work included the trial digging of the eastern, northern and western city-walls and the excavation to the southwest of the central area within the inner city. It brought to light iron-smelting furnace and tomb remains of the Warring States period, as well as pottery-making molds, iron slag, pottery vessels of the urn,fu cauldron, cup, jar, bu pot, basin and bo bowl and semi-cylindric tiles of that time. Judging from the structure of rammed earth and the ramming technique of the city-walls as well as the pottery from the rammed earth and the moat bottom, the city was first constructed in the late Warring States period and was expanded on a large scale in the early Han.
