Zhenjiang municipal government in 2009 launched the “Urban Renewal Area Shuangjing Road” project, the construction project covers an area of 20 hectares, is located along the Grand Canal into the estuary of the East Coast area, an ancient river, the river confluence, and is what history and culture of Zhenjiang buried heritage rich areas. To rescue and preserve valuable historical and cultural heritage, from August 2009 to January 2010, Zhenjiang Museum archaeologists with the region of the archaeological exploration and excavation work. Have found the Song, Yuan and storage sites, the Yuan Dynasty stone arch bridge. Now explore the situation given below:

One stone arch bridge remains of the Yuan Dynasty

Single-arched stone bridge, generally from south to north, bridge length 38 meters wide, 8 to 9 meters, arch span of 8.7 meters. Arch collapsed early years, the only remaining north and south sides of bridge piers and the stone arch incomplete. Existing pier is 6 meters, bridge piers junction with the narrow, both ends of the bridge width from 0.5 to 1.6 m long, 0.25 wide and 0.5 meters, 0.3 meters thick, ranging from 0.25 to puzzle made of flat stone. Pier bottom rows of wood piles, 10 to 12 cm in diameter to support the pier wall; piers inside the lower stone laying the basis on which to consolidate the use of broken bricks and loess, arch is made with blocks of stone Its size is about 1.5 to 2.2 meters, 0.3 meters wide, 0.3 meters thick. Stone arch between the upper and lower tenon connecting with horizontal stone arch between? Cast butterfly lock connected to reinforcement. Deck the middle of things to be paved stone bridge north-south edge of the stone section. Part of the stone bridge noodles with square holes and ruts groove marks.

Dollars “to the town of Jiang Zhi Shun” contains: “drag Panchiao army in this position before, the old name pontoon. Day of calendar year (1329) waste. To shun years (1331) reconstruction.” And later rebuilt by the Ming Dynasty on many occasions, to the late Qing has almost become a “dry bridge”, “product such as the mound of soil underneath Fu carry on.” Dust after being buried, only a “drag Itabashi” only. The archaeological remains of the Yuan Dynasty stone arch bridge, built in the Yuan and Ming begin, Li Ming and Qing dynasties, to the modern waste, consistent with the basic literature, should be documented in the drag Itabashi.

2, Song, Yuan storage remains Song, Yuan and storage remains of archaeological excavations since November 14, 2009 to January 8, 2010. Excavation trenches 16, pit 2, to explore an area of about 600 square meters, find the Song, Yuan storage remains 13 (which position No. 12,13, archaeological survey in 2006 found that rammed earth steps and the brick wall, was considered houses, granaries after the archaeological discovery, recognized as a granary) seat, one way.

Storage remains in the archaeological discoveries of the drag Itabashi north, the total length of about 200 meters north-south, things are less than 200 meters wide, covers an area of about 40,000 square meters. Storage remains divided Northern and Southern Sung and Yuan three periods, layout is very neat. Song barn 2, that is 1,2 barns, stone arch bridge in the north of the Yuan Dynasty. North-south arrangement. The construction method is to first carry out pounding the accumulation of soil units to form a warehouse floor, surrounded by masonry brick wall to form a warehouse with an internal wooden posts separated between the formation of different positions (the AO). Song barn 10, the 3 ~ 7,9 ~ 13 barns, granaries located in the northern Song Dynasty, the middle is a north-south, about 200 meters of the road separating the Song and Yuan Dynasties to the Song and Yuan road for the symmetry axis distribution, from north to south in order of priority. The construction methods and Northern same difference is found on the ground inside the barn brick paving, ground stone was found a large number of column bases, and Song granary, as well as the separation into different positions, the room also found in some positions be useful brick masonry of the warehouse for easy access between the ramp. Yuan granary 1, that is, on the 8th position, laminated 2 positions in the northern part of the Northern Song, the same construction methods and the Northern Song Dynasty. Also found in the barn to the east there is a north-south brick wall of the building (corridors) sites, suggesting that the granary should be surrounded by closed.

Song granary, that 1,2 positions (F1, F2): Archaeological Discoveries in the stone arch bridge north of the Yuan Dynasty, this storage remains found in the southern most. Direction of 204 °, the two 4-meter spacing, the formation of its station base as a whole Ben Zhu. 2 positions save more comprehensive, so focus on anatomy was carried out.

Local archaeological work over the past 20 years, accumulated 500 000 ceramic fragments, National University of Singapore plans to set up a ceramics database (SherdLibrary), to carry out systematic collection, archiving and records, to promote local and Southeast Asian Archaeology work.

Site preparation for three years, the lack of suitable storage

National Institute of South-East Asia John dense fine (JohnNMiksic) Associate Professor beginning in the last three days at the “Chinese Export Porcelain in Southeast Asia” seminar, said that preparations for a three-year plan, currently the biggest bottleneck is the lack of suitable storage sites . The site must be able to store 250 000 ceramic pieces made in this region, and 250,000 are local Chinese export porcelain unearthed.

Close associate professor of fine early in 1976 on the archaeological Sumatra in Indonesia, he began in 1984 to start in local archaeological excavations, a total of 12 sites, 500 000 are accumulated during the 14th century ceramics.

Good collections like the University of Michigan Library

He said it would set up similar to the University of Michigan Library Goode Collection (GutheCollection). Good collection of library collection archaeologists Kaergude the southern Philippines in the 1920 collection of 7500, between the 14th century to 18th century pottery fragments in Southeast Asia, East Asia and Southeast Asia to study the importance of academic institutions ceramic trade.

Close associate professor of fine, said the region only in Bangkok there was a similar institution, was inundated by heavy rain, so the research on the subject of regional and local scholars have not hesitated to fly to Michigan to conduct research.

“If there is a database in Asia, Southeast Asia, scholars can use it to verify and compare the work. In other words, the ceramic pieces found in Singapore, not just the help of local scholars, it also of South-East Asia ceramic trade scholars to help them through trade and business between the ancient understanding of the prevailing social. ” Good collection of library spokesman Xinuoboli

is one of the invited speakers, she said: “Our archaeological relics from more than 20 islands, more than 540 mining sites, currently planned to be digitized. I that the most suitable for Singapore to set up a similar database, so far none of them has such a large number of discovery, but also a more scientific approach to the recent excavation. ”

Dense fine professor said that although the National Museum to donate a sum of money, but there is no readily available space, they also have to try and negotiate the relevant government departments, all of the current mining ceramic pieces stored in a repository layer stack National stack of boxes.

He said: “In addition to the National Assembly, the most hope that one day I Singapore National Museum to accept these things, it provides the ideal space, but they said that at present there is no space. That can only receive the National Heritage Board only a small part of the collection. ”

He said that the local archaeological sites worthy of including pasture in front of government buildings, they had excavated a small part, but the whole should be buried under the lawn a lot of archaeological artifacts, has not been mined before. Other places worth mining include Sentosa, Pulau Ubin, Punggol and Deguang Island.

Should play an increasingly important role in Singapore

Peking University Institute of Archaeology and Museology, Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Professor Qin Taishu is one of the seminar speakers. He said: “Singapore as Southeast Asia and an important economic center, now also strive to grow into an academic center. The one hand, the local archaeological team in the local mining, Indonesia and Cambodia, have also been excavated, Singapore’s trade with Southeast Asia Ceramics should play an increasingly important role.

“Singapore has bought a special ‘Blackstone No.’ sunken treasure, you buy it, if not to let more people know about academic research, can only do it to promote tourism? Through more relevant (archaeological) research and activities in Singapore or even the development of maritime trade in Southeast Asia Research Centre.