Weijiacun Mound Tombs

Listing and batch

The Jiangsu provincial list of protected sites records the Weijiacun Mound Tombs as Western Zhou to Spring and Autumn, in Weijiacun, Jingqiao Town, Lishui District. In the notice of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government on the seventh batch of provincial protected sites (Su Zheng Fa [2011] No. 181, 19 December 2011) the group is numbered II—1, with the same period, and the address column reads "Weijiacun, Lishui County". The seventh batch comprised 188 sites and 5 extensions, of which this is the only one in Lishui.

The span "Western Zhou to Spring and Autumn" in the notice is a dating range, a conclusion rather than a pair of exact endpoints; this entry does not convert it into specific years.

Related academic literature

Liu Xing's "Excavation Brief on Western Zhou Tombs at Lishui and Danyang, Jiangsu", published in Kaogu, 1985, No. 8, pp. 690—693, is one of the academic references this library has traced that bear directly on Western Zhou tombs in Lishui (recorded from bibliographic description; the original issue has not been obtained).

No data are drawn from that paper here. The tomb count, the assemblage and the tomb forms reported in the brief may be cited only from the original, which this library does not hold. Note also that it is a document distinct from "Western Zhou Tombs Found in Lishui, Jiangsu" (Kaogu, 1976, No. 4) and from the vessels from the Guangchang Mound in Lishui held by the Zhenjiang Museum (Wenwu, 1985, No. 12); these are different publications and cannot stand in for one another.

The rescue excavation of 2005

China News Service reported in 2014 that from April to September 2005, under the co-ordination of the Jiangsu Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics, eight teams including the Nanjing Museum carried out rescue excavations of mound tombs within Lishui. Mound tombs in Lishui commonly yield pottery and proto-porcelain, with glazes tending to yellow or green.

That report covers the rescue excavation of mound tombs along a motorway as a whole and is not the excavation report for the Weijiacun group. This entry therefore does not present "commonly yields pottery and proto-porcelain" as finds from the Weijiacun group itself, but as the common finds of mound tombs in Lishui.

To be added

The number of mounds and the area they cover, the form and chronological sequence of individual mounds, whether the 2005 rescue excavation covered this group, the full excavation report, and the protected area and construction control zone. The sources consulted give none of these.