Preliminary Report on the Excavation of a Tang Dynasty Tomb Dated to the Seventeenth Year of Zhenyuan at Cangjie in Xiangmen,Gusu District,Suzhou,Jiangsu Province
From March to August 2017,the Suzhou Institute of Archaeology conducted an excavation at the Cangjie Site in Xiangmen,Gusu District,Suzhou,Jiangsu province. In the southern area of the site,the excavation uncovered a well-preserved Tang Dynasty rectangular vertical pit tomb. Significantly,the tomb included an epitaph that dates it to the seventeenth year of Zhenyuan (801 AD). This excavation provides new data for the study of the ancient city of Suzhou and Tang Dynasty tombs in the Suzhou area.
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