Ancient Cultural Ruins of the Warring States and Han Dynasties on the North Bank of Qianhai

Ancient Cultural Ruins of the Warring States and Han Dynasties on the North Bank of Qianhai

The Ancient Cultural Ruins of the Warring States and Han Dynasties on the North Bank of Qianhai is a cultural tourism attraction.

On the north bank of Qianhai lies an ancient embankment stretching from Xiaonan Village in Panzhuang Town to Lingtou. The ruins include: the Xitangtuo Village Site, Shuangtuo Site, the Dongtangtuo Village Tomb Cluster, the Laowen Di site at Taoyuan Cen in Biaokou Village, Dongdashuikeng, the Yangjiacen Site, the Beidacen Site in Luolituo, and the Lingtou Site in Lingtou Village. In total, there are eight sites, all residential ruins and burial grounds dating from the Warring States Period to the Han Dynasty. Discovered between 1957 and 1977, the cultural layers are approximately 0.4 to 2.0 meters deep. Exposed artifacts include: three types of pottery—sandy red pottery, clay gray pottery, and sandy gray pottery—as well as fragments of tripods, jars, basins, dou vessels, and steamers, rope-patterned roof tiles, tubular tiles, wuzhu coins, pottery imitations of jade bi discs, iron fragments, and a small number of scattered shells.