Qilu Evening News Qilu One Point Reporter Cheng Lingrun Intern Reporter Zhang Aixin
Recently, the official website of the Jinan Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism released news that the Jinan Archaeological Research Institute successfully completed the excavation of ming dynasty tombs in a project plot south of Feiyue Avenue.
The tomb is shaped as a square domed stone chamber tomb, the overall plane is in the shape of an "A" shape, and is composed of a tomb passage, a tomb door, a Yongdao, and a burial chamber.
The tomb passage is located on the south side, the plane is nearly rectangular, straight wall, the bottom is a step and slope type; the tomb door is a double stone door, with a wall on the top, and the external figure eight wall; the Yongdao is a flat top two-sided slope type; the lower part of the burial chamber is square, and the upper part is a circular dome.
It is understood that 3 human bones were found in the tomb, and porcelain jars, porcelain pots, porcelain stoves, town tomb bricks, copper mirrors, copper coins and other utensils were unearthed. It is initially speculated that the tomb age is from the early Ming Dynasty.
It is worth noting that the excavation work has two more important discoveries, one is the discovery of a well-preserved painted wooden coffin in the tomb, and the other is that the coffin is filled with a large number of plant seeds around the human bones.
The tomb did not see obvious anti-embalming measures, and the wooden coffin and seeds could be preserved well, which is relatively rare in archaeological findings in Shandong, providing important information for the study of funerary customs and social culture at that time.