Duan Zhiqiang of Xuchang Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research and Administration Is entitled "2021 Xuchang Archaeological Excavation Work Report". This year, in cooperation with urban infrastructure, our firm has completed a total of 61 archaeological exploration projects with an exploration area of 2.89 million square meters, and completed 12 excavation projects with an excavation area of 5430 square meters. The content of this report is the two main projects of Xuchang Yutong and Xuchang Huagang Printing. After several years of excavations in the area, there is a certain understanding. In particular, the discovery of this road from the Han Dynasty period, combined with the excavation process in the northern area of the project in 2020, in addition to the excavation of 11 Han tombs, there is also a Han Dynasty kiln site, which is likely to be dedicated to the various building materials used in the construction of tombs in the cemetery (such as hollow bricks, mother-daughter bricks, small bricks, etc.). In addition, the cemetery has many and dense tombs, but there is not much broken relationship between the tombs, so it seems that the layout of the cemetery has been planned in advance, such as roads, kilns and other supporting facilities are relatively complete. Based on the characteristics of the excavated pottery, copper coins and bronze mirrors, it is speculated that the area should be a small and medium-class cemetery from the middle and late Western Han Dynasty to the Wang Mang period.
[The report was published at the "2021 Henan Archaeological Work Achievements Exchange Meeting" held in Nanyang, Henan on the morning of December 18, 2021]
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Xuchang City completed the field archaeology work of Henan Huagang Printing Co., Ltd. (Phase II) project as scheduled
2021-12-17
In order to fully support the construction of Xuchang Project and take the initiative to serve economic and social development, as of December 6, after the unremitting efforts of archaeologists of Xuchang Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research and Management Institute, the pre-field archaeology work of the construction project of Henan Huagang Printing Co., Ltd. (Phase II) that lasted more than 8 months was completed as scheduled, effectively ensuring the smooth implementation of the provincial key construction projects.
The construction project of Henan Huagang Printing Co., Ltd. (Phase II) is located on the east side of Huaxia Avenue in Changge City, and belongs to the key construction industrial projects in Henan Province in 2021. Since the entry of archaeology in April this year, the Municipal Archaeological Institute has actively overcome the adverse impact of flood disasters during the flood season and the normalization of the epidemic on the field archaeological work, actively transformed the on-site care and condolences of the relevant leaders of the bureau to the archaeological excavation site of the project into a work motivation, and in accordance with the requirements of the city's resumption of work and production, vigorously grasped the implementation of measures such as epidemic prevention and control, safe production, and fire hazard investigation at the archaeological construction site, and seized time and ensured progress under the premise of ensuring quality and safety. The archaeological exploration and excavation work of the project was completed with high quality.
The archaeological clean-up of the remains includes ancient tombs and ancient kiln sites, and the total excavation area of the remains is 2970 square meters. Among them, there are 125 ancient tombs in the two Han Dynasties, and the tomb shape system has rectangular vertical cavity hollow brick chamber tomb and rectangular vertical cave earth pit tomb; 1 ancient kiln site in the Eastern Han Dynasty. More than 200 pieces (sets) of cultural relics such as round bottom jars, urns, pots, pillows, swords, portrait hollow bricks, ring head knives, hooks, mirrors, bone ornaments and other cultural relics were unearthed, and 6 five-baht copper coins were unearthed. Through this archaeological excavation, a large amount of physical data has been provided for the city's strengthening of the firing technology, funerary customs and tomb shape system research of the two Han Dynasties.
Xuxin Expressway (Xuchang section) Shizhuang site field archaeological work was completed
2021-11-12
Since February this year, the Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the Xuchang Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research and Management have formed a joint archaeological team to conduct archaeological exploration and archaeological excavations at the Shizhuang site of Xuxin Expressway (Xuchang Section). By the end of October, the joint archaeological team had successfully completed the field archaeological work of the project.
The archaeological clean-up of the remains includes ash ditches, ash pits, tombs, wells, roads, kilns, stoves, etc., and the excavation area is 6,000 square meters. Among them, there are 270 ash pits of the Shang Dynasty Erligang, Eastern Zhou, Han Dynasty and other dynasties, 43 tombs of the Han Dynasty, Wei Jin, Tang Dynasty, Song Dynasty, Ming and Qing Dynasties, 5 roads in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, 5 ash ditches in the Song Dynasty, 2 wells, 1 stove and 1 kiln in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. Collect more than 500 bags of pottery pieces and animal bones.
The site has rich cultural connotations, complete settlement structure, and good preservation of the ruins, which is of great significance for the study of the political form of Xuchang area in the Shang Dynasty and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, as well as the layout of settlements and the construction technology of houses.