Name: West Park Ruins
Era: Neolithic, Spring and Autumn Period
Category: Ancient ruins
Territory: Donghe District
Level: Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (Third Batch, May 1996)
Introduction: Discovered in 1983, test excavated in 1985, excavated in 1988. The remains of the middle and late Neolithic Yangshao and the transitional period of Yangshao Longshan and the late Longshan period of the Fourth Neolithic Period were found. The second and third periods of the remains are the most abundant, belonging to the Ashan type of Haisheng Bulang culture and the Ashan culture type. There are also late Spring and Autumn Xirong tombs and pebble ancestral pits. The terraces on both sides of Xiaoxigou are westward to Miaogou and east to Tiger Ditch, which is a cultural relics protection area.
Source: Monument to the Protection of Cultural Relics
West Park Ruins (Huang Xiang in March 2019)
Pottery excavated from the West Garden site (in The Baotou City Museum)
Turquoise bone ornament excavated from the West Garden site (in Baotou City Museum)
Huang Xiang (Yin Shan Worm) was sorted out in January 2022