Archaeologists in shandong province recently came to the southwest of liugou new village, ningyang county, tai 'an, shandong province to excavate a sui dynasty kiln site.
Came to shandong province tai 'an ningyang county liugou new village southwest site archaeological site, this is also the dong liang high-speed ningyang to liangshan section of the project site, after more than 40 days of archaeological excavation, in about 300 square meters of six exploration, the appearance of a sui dynasty kiln site workshop has been clearly visible.
Field work has ended, and now the archaeological site scene, finishing in a corner site, reporter saw a whole row of porcelain and excavated kiln furniture, one of the largest pile of triangle kiln, striking, from jinan archaeology excavating executive director XingQi tells a reporter, this is called, with the "workshop of the ancient kiln firing method mainly overstow naked to burn, and implements is stacked layers, separated with a nail middle frame, prevent sticking together." In some of the bowls unearthed, traces of the pins can also be seen clearly. Like this nail, the site alone unearthed about 10,000 pieces, the reporter saw only one twentieth of the original, eye-opening. According to the number of unearthed nails can also be seen that the kiln site scale and production is very large.
In addition to use fire, with the archaeological sites also explore the use of kiln furniture "sagger," this is a fire in the process of ceramics, in order to prevent gas and harmful material damage to the body and glaze and defiled, the ceramics and blank place the container in which the roasting, compared with the direct contact with flames of fire, heated evenly, inside this fire porcelain are relatively high-quality goods. Other kiln tools include walls, pillars, washers, etc., some of which are engraved with the words, "we infer that someone may be responsible for the burning of the bowl on this pillar, so make a mark and the person is responsible for the burning." XingQi said. After rough calculation, the burn out rate here is about 10%.
Through the selection of archaeologists, most unearthed artifacts were concentrated in the sui dynasty, as early as the late northern dynasty, which provided new clues for the further study of the production mode and production organization of the sui dynasty porcelain industry, and had important reference significance.
In addition to kiln tools, the unearthed porcelain wares are also rich and diverse, including bowls, plates and cups, among which more than 100 pieces can be recovered and more than 1,000 pieces can be used as specimens. Although no magnetic kiln was found in the exploration, there were Wells, clay, ash pits and trenches related to porcelain making, "so it can be judged that this was an important porcelain production workshop in the sui dynasty." "This is the only sui dynasty kiln site that has been excavated in shandong province in 30 years," xing said. It provides new and important materials for shandong and even the whole country to study the production of sui dynasty porcelain.
