During a Project of capital construction, the Suzhou and Changshu museums carried out jointly rescuring excavation of three mounds (D1-D3) on West Hill at Yǖshan. Mound D1 stands on the main peak. It is large in size...During a Project of capital construction, the Suzhou and Changshu museums carried out jointly rescuring excavation of three mounds (D1-D3) on West Hill at Yǖshan. Mound D1 stands on the main peak. It is large in size and looks like a truncated pyramid. The slopes are surfaced with stones, and the interior consists of a passage, a corridor and a stone chamber. Of the 93 unearthed objects, 89 are porcelain vessels of the jar, yǖ container, dou stemmed vessel, zun vase, gui food container, etc; the rest, only four pieces, are pottery, in which there are a ding tripod, a fu cauldron and a spindle whorl. These finds are seen mainly in the middle and at the rear wall of the chamber. D2 consists of a passage and a stone chamber. Owing to robbery in early time, it yielded only five objects in the southwestern corner, at the entrance of the chamber. D3 is the same shape as D2. Its 32 objects are unearthed at the entrance and rear wall of the chamber. They include hard-fired jars, urns and yǖ vessels with impressed patterns, proto-porcelain dou and yǖ, grey clay jars and bo bowls, and red sandy pottery ding. The characteristic features of the unearthed objects suggest that D1-D3 might have been of the Western Zhou to the early Spring-and-Autumn period, and that D1 is an altar while D2 and D3 are tombs.展开更多
These tombs lie in the center and north of Deqing County on the southern shore of the Taihu Lake, and altogether 11 mounds were excavated on Ducang and Nanwang hills. The mounds are made oval or round in plan, arrange...These tombs lie in the center and north of Deqing County on the southern shore of the Taihu Lake, and altogether 11 mounds were excavated on Ducang and Nanwang hills. The mounds are made oval or round in plan, arranged in lines along the hill ridges, and raised distinctly on the surface.They contain burials in stone chambers or those without such furniture; the latter can further be divided into several classes, such as the stone-framed, stone-bedded and on-the-ground types. No human skeleton and coffin were found in the tombs. The funeral objects include proto-porcelain, hard pottory with impressed pattern and a small amount of plain hard pottery and clay one. In date the tombs can be roughly assigned to the time from the early Western Zhou to the late Spring-and-Autumn period. With the variety of burial forms, the importance of some remains and the exquisiteness of numerous grave goods, the discovery provides valuable material for studying in depth the regionalization, periodization and burial custom of mounded tombs, as well as the evolution of proto-porcelain.展开更多
In the spring of 1998, the Feng-Hao Excavation Team, IA, CASS, revealed three large-sized tombs and a horse-and-chariot burial pit to the north of Dayuan Village in the Fengxi area of Chang' an County, Shaanxi Pro...In the spring of 1998, the Feng-Hao Excavation Team, IA, CASS, revealed three large-sized tombs and a horse-and-chariot burial pit to the north of Dayuan Village in the Fengxi area of Chang' an County, Shaanxi Province. The tombs are all wooden-chambered rectangular earthen pits. Of them M5 and M6 left over only chambers and below, while M4 is a little better in condition. Despite their robbery, these graves yielded some pottery, bronze, jade, stone and bone articles, mainly bronzehorse-and-chariot fittings, jades and ornaments. M5 and M6 go back roughly to the later Spring-and-Autumn period, whereas M4 should be dated to the Western Zhou period, from the Yiwang to the Liwang reigns. They are close to each other in location and must have belonged to the common graveyard of an aristocratic family.展开更多
文摘During a Project of capital construction, the Suzhou and Changshu museums carried out jointly rescuring excavation of three mounds (D1-D3) on West Hill at Yǖshan. Mound D1 stands on the main peak. It is large in size and looks like a truncated pyramid. The slopes are surfaced with stones, and the interior consists of a passage, a corridor and a stone chamber. Of the 93 unearthed objects, 89 are porcelain vessels of the jar, yǖ container, dou stemmed vessel, zun vase, gui food container, etc; the rest, only four pieces, are pottery, in which there are a ding tripod, a fu cauldron and a spindle whorl. These finds are seen mainly in the middle and at the rear wall of the chamber. D2 consists of a passage and a stone chamber. Owing to robbery in early time, it yielded only five objects in the southwestern corner, at the entrance of the chamber. D3 is the same shape as D2. Its 32 objects are unearthed at the entrance and rear wall of the chamber. They include hard-fired jars, urns and yǖ vessels with impressed patterns, proto-porcelain dou and yǖ, grey clay jars and bo bowls, and red sandy pottery ding. The characteristic features of the unearthed objects suggest that D1-D3 might have been of the Western Zhou to the early Spring-and-Autumn period, and that D1 is an altar while D2 and D3 are tombs.
文摘These tombs lie in the center and north of Deqing County on the southern shore of the Taihu Lake, and altogether 11 mounds were excavated on Ducang and Nanwang hills. The mounds are made oval or round in plan, arranged in lines along the hill ridges, and raised distinctly on the surface.They contain burials in stone chambers or those without such furniture; the latter can further be divided into several classes, such as the stone-framed, stone-bedded and on-the-ground types. No human skeleton and coffin were found in the tombs. The funeral objects include proto-porcelain, hard pottory with impressed pattern and a small amount of plain hard pottery and clay one. In date the tombs can be roughly assigned to the time from the early Western Zhou to the late Spring-and-Autumn period. With the variety of burial forms, the importance of some remains and the exquisiteness of numerous grave goods, the discovery provides valuable material for studying in depth the regionalization, periodization and burial custom of mounded tombs, as well as the evolution of proto-porcelain.
文摘In the spring of 1998, the Feng-Hao Excavation Team, IA, CASS, revealed three large-sized tombs and a horse-and-chariot burial pit to the north of Dayuan Village in the Fengxi area of Chang' an County, Shaanxi Province. The tombs are all wooden-chambered rectangular earthen pits. Of them M5 and M6 left over only chambers and below, while M4 is a little better in condition. Despite their robbery, these graves yielded some pottery, bronze, jade, stone and bone articles, mainly bronzehorse-and-chariot fittings, jades and ornaments. M5 and M6 go back roughly to the later Spring-and-Autumn period, whereas M4 should be dated to the Western Zhou period, from the Yiwang to the Liwang reigns. They are close to each other in location and must have belonged to the common graveyard of an aristocratic family.
