Luotuodun ancient cultural site

Luotuodun ancient cultural site

Located in the farmland 1.5 kilometers north of Chonggu Town, Qingpu County, the mound is nearly oval, flat topped, 35 meters long from east to west, 25 meters wide from north to south, and about 2.5 meters high from farmland. There is a pool on it, which has been stagnant for many years, indicating that there are signs of tombs in the mound. It is locally known as Fengshui mound.

Basic introduction

Camel pier is also one of the eight beacon towers in the county during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

In 1957, the Archaeology Department of Shanghai museum made an archaeological investigation in Qingpu. In the southwest corner of the pier, one hard pottery bottle with zigzag pattern and one Hui character pattern and four gray pottery pots were found. In 1959, a Western Han Dynasty tomb was found in the center of the pier. In 1962 and 1973, one Tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty, one Tomb of the spring and Autumn period and two tombs of the Western Han Dynasty were cleared on the mound in coordination with the land leveling. The tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty is about 1.5 meters deep on the west side of the pier. It is an earthen pit tomb, in which only a few pieces of decaying bones and a piece of burial impression hard pottery are found. The pottery is red and brown in color, with curled lips, necks, a round belly and a round bottom. The shape of the pottery is close to the Maqiao culture. The surface of the pottery is full of compound patterns of broken lines and Hui characters. The patterns are thick and deep, and the production is exquisite. Spring and autumn tombs. Located in the southeast of the tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty, it is also an earthen pit tomb with three original porcelain bowls. It is a typical primitive porcelain ware of the spring and Autumn period. It has blue yellow glaze, gray white body, rolled lip, flat abdomen, flat bottom and thick and deep whorl pattern on the inner bottom. The three tombs of the Western Han Dynasty were all buried in earth pits with the same shape, about 2 meters deep and rectangular. In 1962, a tomb was excavated. In the eastern part of the pit, there were decayed coffins, five rusted nails on the coffin, and five Painted Leather on the coffin. It was difficult to distinguish the traces of human bones in the coffin. Only a few teeth were found in the northern end. A bronze mirror wrapped with linen was found in the upper right corner of the head. In the western part of the pit, there were 17 pieces of ceramics, such as glaucous boxes, tripods, pots, ampoules and grey pottery pots There are about 100 pieces of clay half coins with marks wrapped in linen near the ampoules. These utensils and pottery are all clay gray pottery. The blue glaze ware belongs to half porcelain and half pottery. It has a grayish red body. It has a greenish green glaze on the abdomen and a exposed body on the lower part. The shape of the utensil is made of tripod with cover, appendages, hoofs and feet, and three small buttons protruding from the cover. The pot has a high neck, round feet, two braided ears on the shoulder, a small mouth on the ampule, a bulging shoulder, a flat bottom, a short and fat shape, a spreading head, an appendage with the same height as the mouth and three small feet on the bottom, all of which are the characteristics of the early Western Han Dynasty. As for the half Liang coins, which were used in the fifth year of Yuanshou, Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, the bronze mirrors were made with Chuan shaped buttons and decorated with flat dragon patterns, which had the style of the late Warring States period. Therefore, this tomb belongs to the early Western Han Dynasty. The owner of the tomb was an official with a certain status who buried with the tripod, box, pot, ampoule and other ritual utensils. In 1979, it was announced as the cultural relics protection site of Qingpu County.

Site excavation

Through the first excavation in 1959 and the trial excavation in 1962, the specific information of luotuodun site was basically found out. Under the surface of the mound, there are geometric impression pottery, sand pottery, clay pottery and glazed pottery at a depth of 30-50 cm. Stone arrowheads and ashes were also found. The impression pottery patterns are mainly zigzag pattern, mat pattern, Huizi pattern and rice sieve pattern, while rice pattern and window lattice pattern are rare. In the southwest corner of the mound, 2 meters deep from the surface of the mound, another Han tomb was found. Except for 7 pieces of pottery, the others were placed in pairs. The tripod boxes were glazed pottery, yellow green in color, red brown in color, and round in shape. It has a small mouth and a flat bottom. Its round foot is 12.5cm high. The tripod is deep and has short feet. Its feet are decorated in animal shape. The bottle has a small mouth and flat bottom. The shoulder is carved with double string and wavy lines. The pot is made of grey pottery and soft. In addition, there are two coins of Tao Han's bumper harvest and one bronze mirror with flat dragon pattern, which are of the style from the late Warring States period to the Western Zhou Dynasty, indicating that this is a tomb in the early Western Han Dynasty.

Address: 1.5km north of Chonggu town

Longitude: 121.176539

Latitude: 31.201482