Comprehensive Study On The Mining And Metalworking Site In Shanjiazhuang, Xintai City

The mining and metallurgy site in Shanjiazhuang, Yangliu town,Xintai city,Shandong province is a site of the Han period that the author participated in person. And this is the pirst time to take system excavation on mining and metallurgy site in Shandong province .This site is located in Shanjiazhuang, Yangliu town,Xintai city,Shandong province. It is a full -featured mining and metallurgy site. The site was first discoverd by local heritage cadres of Xintai city,later they surveyed the site several more times. I went there to do field survey and record with my mentor in 2006.The site is near to the villege and had always been damaged in a long time. The site contains three parts mainly:the metalworking site,the mining site and the burning charcoal site. We did surveying and excavating work mainly on these three sites.The metalworking site he burning charcoal site are lacated on cliff,arounded by fields,so they are damaged constantly when the farmers do land formation and take soil. The mining siteis located anong the mountain near to the villege,we can see peoele are still mining today,so the relics of the site had been damaging seriously.The excavating work was taken prograss from march to june,2007.During this time we excavated a baking pottery modal kiln, discoverd and extracted several pottern modals,two pottery bricks and a large number of iron ore. The kiln had a larger size compared to other kilns of the same time and special shapes. It will be important inpormation for the research of ancient kilns.But we didn't finish the excavating for technical reason and aechived the kiln.The pottery modals in the kiln are to produce Ding and similar in shapes with the several Dings discoverd in Laiwu in the 1970s .There are inevitable relecation between them.We did investigation and measure on the mining site,discovering the site contained open mining area and roadway mining area. We measured the size of the mineds and approximately computed the number of the mine mined. We also collected ore samples. We excavated charcoal pools at the burning charcoal site,acquainted the shapes and building methods of the pools. We also collected charcoal samples which will be critical in dating.During the excavation we surveyed several places surroundingareas,containing Qishengzhuang villege,Niuquan town,Laiwu city(24 iron medals were founded in early 1970s)and the Tongshan mining and metallurgy site located in Miaopu town,Laicheng area,Laiwu city and so on. These sites are closely related to metallury archeaology and supplied useful information for the excavation.Furthermore,we excavated six tombs on the high mesa in the east of Shanjiazhuang villege. The resault showed that these tombs were built during the Warring States,there is no ralationship between them and the mining and metallurgy site. This discovery negatived the speculation that the tombs were the cemetery of the mining and metallurgy site.We had collated information after the excavation. Although the excavation had came to an end for the time, ther are still several probleme unresolved. For example ,we have not discoved the living area and cemetery of the mining and metallurgy site. There is great possibility that these historical remains had been damaged completely .The volume of charcoal pools at the burning charcoal site can't be computed for the pools had damaged seriously,and so on. These loss are unpredictable and great pity.The excavation of the mining and metallurgy site in Shanjiazhuang is of great significance . It avoided more lossof information of the site and offered useful experience for the metallury archeaology in Shandong province.Furthermore,the excavation reminded us to strengthen the protection of similar sites,and do excavation when necessary,making the sites to play their value most...