Fangwanggang ancient tombs

Fangwanggang ancient tombs

Fangwanggang ancient tombs are located in the eastern suburb of Chaohu City, Hefei City, Anhui Province, which is said to be named after Fangjie of Shangtang.

In fangwanggang, there are seven ancient tombs with thick sealing soil

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Cultural relics protection

In 1996, one of the tombs was excavated for the purpose of capital construction. The tomb is a wooden coffin tomb with a vertical hole in the earth pit, with a length of 9.2 meters from east to west. It is 7 meters wide from north to south. On the west wall, there are more than 900 pieces of cultural relics, such as grave path, heavy coffin, heavy coffin, bronze ware, lacquerware, Royal ware, slippery stone ware, iron ware, lead ware, horny ware, etc.

In 1996, an ancient tomb of the Western Han Dynasty named Lu Ke was successfully excavated. More than 790 pieces of precious cultural relics were unearthed, including bronze, lacquer, pottery, horny ware, jade, weapons, ritual utensils, and chestnut, jujube and other plant seeds. The excavation of the tomb has a certain influence at home and abroad, with high scientific, historical, artistic value. In order to protect and make good use of these precious cultural relics, a special Han Tomb Museum was built in 1997 at the original site of Lu Ke's tomb in the Han Dynasty according to the standard of county-level Museum. The excavation of the tomb won the honorary nomination award of "top ten archaeological discoveries in China in 1996".

Cultural relic value

Lu Ke's tomb is of large scale, high specification and special coffin structure, which has never been seen before in the Han tombs excavated in Anhui Province. It provides precious material materials for the study of the history of Chaohu Area in the Western Han Dynasty.

Address: Yuxi Road, Juchao District, Chaohu City, Anhui Province

Longitude: 117.893123

Latitude: 31.600022

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