A great number of dwellings, ash-pits,jade-pieces, stone pieces, potteries, and especially a lot of carvedceramicmasks have been have been found at the site.
A total of 262 tombs have been dug up here with the excavation of more than 200 articles ofjadepieces, jade battle-axes , and hollow and rectangular jade pieces.
Palaces and walls as well as rammed-earth foundations have been excavated. Important relics, such as wheel tracks, large rammed earth bases, and the remains of turquoise-making workshops, were also found.
The site in Northwest China was first discovered in early last century and excavated in 1934 by a Swedish archeologist. Altogether 167 tombs have been dug up since the end of 2002, unearthing thousands of precious relics.
A city wall of the Western Zhou Period was found here, bringing to light the two large-sized artificial building sites of yellow earth and uncovering two large-sized sites of houses of possible palatial buildings.
Two large brick-tombs of the Southern Han Period were found respectively at Qinggang of Beiting Village to the west of the Xiaogu Circular Islet and at Major Fragrant Hill.
Many important ruins of theSouthern Song Dynastywere unearthed, including an imperial street and its bridge ramp and pier, roads, palace site, surrounding walls, waterway, and stonework sluice as well as a stone-slab street.
The site revealed a large group of ruins in close connection with the technology for liquor brewing, including the water-wells, wine-cellars, stoves and ovens, cooling halls, water-drainages, ponds, and wall-base and so on.
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