The Remains and Working Methods of the Qiuhu Mountain Quarry

The Qiuhu Mountain Quarry lies at what is now Qiuhu Mountain, Yongyang Subdistrict, Lishui District. The Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism's list of municipal protected sites records it as Ming, at Qiuhu Mountain, Yongyang Subdistrict, and as a municipally protected site.

What this entry has is the municipal list's own record. The list gives neither the extent of the quarry nor the number of surviving workings, nor specific years of working, nor the destination of the stone, and it does not describe how the stone was extracted. This entry does not infer a span of years from the recorded period of Ming, and does not describe the form of the workings or the tool marks on them.

Basis for the date

time is set to 1400–1600, at a precision of century and marked as approximate. The range is simply the span of calendar years corresponding to the recorded period Ming, used to place the site roughly on a timeline; it is not the span of the quarry's working life. The sources give no specific years, and this entry supplies none. The relation between the quarry and Ming stone-built works in the district would need documentary or field evidence, which the sources available do not provide.

Entry to be expanded. This is a skeleton entry: at present it guarantees only that the fields and sources are complete. Still to be added: the extent of the quarry and the number of workings, the physical traces of extraction and dressing (chisel marks, wedge sockets, half-finished pieces and waste), the use and destination of the stone, the relation to Ming stone-built works in Lishui, and the gazette for the municipal batch. Until then, no unverified description of the working methods will be entered.