Excavation of Xitun Family Cemetery of the Northern Wei Dynasty in Yanqing,Beijing
The Xitun Cemetery is about 200 meters southwest of Xitun Village in Yanqing Town,Yanqing District of Beijing.It borders Guanmao Mountain,the remnant of Yanshan Mountain,to the north and Guishui River to the south.From October 2008 to November 2009,to cooperate with the capital construction,the Beijing Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics conducted archaeological survey and excavation on the project-scheduled land and discovered 490 tombs of different periods across the area of about 35,000 sq.m.The excavated 28 Northern Wei tombs with similar structures and scales are neatly arranged in two cemeteries in the western excavation area.25 are brick-built single-chamber tombs with tomb passages,1 has two brick-built chambers and a tomb passage,and 2 are trapezoidal-shaped brick tombs.Unearthed artifacts include potteries of figurines,animals,vehicles,daily necessities,and bronzes of mirrors,hairpins,bracelets,and stone mortars,etc.The discovered family cemeteries of the early Northern Wei Dynasty are rare in Beijing,providing new materials for studying funeral customs and systems of this time.
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