From March to July 2024,the Palace Museum,the Jiangxi Province Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the Jingdezhen City Institute of Ceramic Archaeology formed a joint archaeological team to carry out archaeological excavations in the area outside the east gate of Imperial Kiln.The actual area of this excavation is more than 160 square meters.The excavation revealed deposit including multiple historical periods from the Yuan,Ming,Qing to the Republic of China.The excavated relics include walls,roads,drainage ditches,gate sites,etc.from the Ming,Qing to the Republic of China.A large number of porcelain fragments and building components from the Yuan Dynasty to the Republic of China were unearthed.All these new discoveries provide archaeological evidence for further clarifying the pattern,functional configuration,porcelain production,and the evolution of the traffic pattern inside and outside the imperial kiln.
Ming and Qing Dynasty Imperial Kiln SiteOutsite East Gate SiteArchaeological ExcavationEast Wall