Thirty-one Han tombs have been found in Hohhot and Linlinger County, according to the Institute of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and the School of History and Culture of Inner Mongolia Normal University on Thursday.
The excavation of the Han tomb is of great significance to supplement the shape and system of the Han tombs in central and southern Inner Mongolia.
The excavation address is located on a platform about 1 km northwest of the ancient city of xiaohongCity, Helinger County.
From June to September 2021, the Inner Mongolia Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, together with the Department of Archaeology and Museology of the School of History and Culture of Inner Mongolia Normal University, and the Helinger County Cultural Relics Protection Center, carried out rescue excavations here.
According to the introduction, a total of 31 excavated tombs, unearthed with a variety of burial objects, a considerable number of objects.
Including pottery POTS, pottery pot, pottery Wells, pottery stoves, etc 350 pieces (sets).
According to official sources, the Han tomb in Helinger County, including earth pit tomb, earth cave tomb, brick wall tomb and brick chamber tomb.
The tomb has various shapes and systems, among which the brick wall tomb with no securities roof is dominated, and there is also the only parallel vault brick chamber tomb.
Brick wall tombs are rarely found in other areas of Inner Mongolia. It is preliminarily inferred that the transition form from earth cave tomb to brick chamber tomb, which is of great significance.
The amount of pottery unearthed from this excavation is considerable, diverse and well preserved, among which the pottery combination of “pot, pot, stove and well” is the most distinctive.
Among the 31 tombs, nearly two-thirds have a complete combination of “pot, pot, stove and well”.
In addition to the number of cans, all the tombs with this combination are buried with 3 or 6 POTS, with one well and one stove.
Qi Rongqing, director of the Department of Archaeology and Culture of Inner Mongolia Normal University, believes that the excavation of the Han tomb supplemented the shape and system of the Han tombs in central and southern Inner Mongolia, and advanced the political, economic and cultural understanding of the middle and late Western Han Dynasty to the early Eastern Han Dynasty in the whole central and southern Inner Mongolia.
(Reporter Li Aiping)