Recently, the reporter learned from the Guangxi Beihai City Cultural Relics Research Center that archaeologists found an ancient tomb group with a distribution area of about 70,000 square meters in the ancient city village committee of Fucheng Town, Yinhai District, and there were more than 200 cemeteries in the preliminary exploration.
The tomb has obvious southern and northern dynastic characteristics
Due to the long-term activities of local residents in the area such as leveling the land, digging pits for soil, building roads and planting trees, the tomb area has been damaged to varying degrees. At present, nearly thirty tombs have been exposed to the ground, most of which have damaged the upper part of the burial chamber, leaving only the bottom of the tomb.
Archaeologists collected more relics in the burial area, the complete type of pottery pots and bowls, the pottery pot type is larger, and more artifact fragments such as mouth edges, ear ear, and abdominal pieces have also been found.
Liao Yuantian, director of the Beihai Municipal Museum and director of the Beihai Cultural Relics Protection and Research Center and the Beihai Maritime Silk Road Application Center, said: "The cultural relics collected next to the cemetery have obvious southern and northern dynastic (artifact characteristics). ”
Tombs are built in a rare way
It fills the gap of such cultural relics in Guangxi
According to research, the construction method of the tomb is generally to use a kind of stone slab masonry chamber four walls called "grinding wheel piece" in the vertical cave burial chamber, which is rare in the Beihai region and even in Guangxi, and has high academic research value and historical research value.
Liao Yuantian said that the discovery of the tomb fills the gap in the beihai and even Guangxi types of cultural relics, "is a relatively important discovery, and our history and culture of the Beihai sea have further supplemented this information." ”
In order to further promote the declaration of the Beihai Maritime Silk Road as a world cultural heritage, find out the ancient cultural relics of the Coastal Area of the Beihai Sea, and clarify the historical and cultural context of the Beihai Region, since September 2017, the Beihai Museum has organized professionals to conduct a systematic archaeological survey of the Coastal Area of the Beihai Sea, and the tomb was found in this coastal archaeology.