Shaqing Mountain Ruins

Shaqing Mountain Ruins

Shaqing Mountain Ruins is a cultural relic protection unit of Suzhou.

Shaqing Mountain Ruins, located northeast of Qiandun Town in Kunshan City, is an earthen mound standing 5 meters high. The original site covered an area of over 40,000 square meters, with about 300 square meters remaining today. It was discovered in 1958, and since then numerous stone tools and pottery artifacts have been unearthed. In December 1984, trial excavations were carried out by the Kunshan Cultural Relics Management Committee and the Suzhou Museum. The site's cultural strata include remains from the Majiabang, Songze, and Liangzhu cultures, with the upper layer being a disturbed Eastern Zhou cultural deposit.

The Majiabang culture layer yielded wide-rimmed, red, sand-tempered cylindrical tripods, round-bottomed tripods, and black pottery dishes and bowls. A tomb from the Songze culture layer was found without a visible pit, but its base was paved with red powder. The deceased was a middle-aged woman lying supine in an extended position, and she was buried with four funerary objects: a black pottery dish with red decorations, a Ding vessel, a jar, and a perforated stone axe. The Liangzhu culture layer revealed a damaged tomb where a set of 19 jade artifacts—including a cong, a huán, axes, and bracelets—were placed in the northwest corner, along with two stone tools. Also excavated were shouldered stone axes and stone bracelets.