Dalupu Site

　　The Dalupu Site is situated in Tuku Village, Baisha Town, Yangxin County. It is surrounded by mountains on its northeastern, southeastern, and southwestern sides. The site is an irregular rectangle, elevated about 5 meters above the surrounding ground. It stretches approximately 400 meters from north to south and 200 meters from east to west, covering an area of 80,000 square meters.

　　The site was discovered in 1981, and subsequent excavations were carried out by the Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology in 1983, 1990, and 2003, with a total excavated area of 1,658.5 square meters. Various relics from different periods were unearthed, including ash pits, pottery kilns, houses, ditches, wells, and tombs. Artifacts from the Neolithic Age mainly consist of pottery and stone tools. In addition to pottery and stone items, the Shang and Zhou Dynasty finds also included a large number of remains related to mining, smelting, and casting.

　　The Dalupu Site contains relics from the late Neolithic Age and the Shang and Zhou periods. The Shang and Zhou relics represent an independent regional cultural type of that era in the Jianghan area. The abundance of mining-related remains indicates that it was a high-level settlement among the ancient mining and smelting sites in southeastern Hubei at the time. The site provides valuable material for studying ancient mining and production, bronze casting, and related technical standards in southeastern Hubei, as well as playing an important role in establishing the chronological framework of this cultural type in southeastern Hubei and adjacent regions (southwestern Anhui and northern Jiangxi).