For example, the currency in circulation at that time, or some tombstone stone carvings have already written the era, or rely on the characteristics of artifacts in a certain period to determine the age, if these are not obvious, then you can only rely on the stratum to roughly judge the age.

It is not easy to break the dynasty of the building itself, because the architecture before the Tang Dynasty was not known to the Tang Dynasty or even the Song Dynasty, and the development history of Chinese architecture is an esoteric knowledge.

But at the end of the day, research isn't what I'm going to do, it's my job to get it out.

On this day, I shaved my face under the strong sunlight, and my eyes were sunburned, so I had to stand up and slow down first, otherwise I would not be able to see clearly even if there were relics. The other three seasons of the year are like "exercising" in the field, but in the summer, it is very painful.

I looked at the sky, there was no cloud, I looked at my arm, it was already black and it didn't look like myself at all, but I couldn't help it.

Scratching and scraping, I felt that something was wrong. On the yellowish stratum, two parallel and very straight boundary lines are gradually revealed, with a brown color in the middle. I'm a little excited, generally speaking, there should be a tomb under this line. I continued to scrape to see if I could find the five-flower soil, and if there were, it would be a tomb nine times out of ten.

However, I looked at this place and speculated, the length of these two lines is enough, you can bury people, but the width of the two sides is too narrow, which means that if it is a tomb, the owner of the tomb is very thin, and there should be no burial goods, it may be a civilian pit tomb. But it doesn't make sense, which civilian has the ability to bury himself in the garden of the same period? It's unlikely to be buried in a park now, let alone the feudal era. So if it's a civilian burial, maybe the nature of the complex will also cause some problems.

I called two migrant workers and asked them to dig up 10 centimeters of soil within the range I had set. I want to take this opportunity to see if there is any flower soil. In some places, I would tell them not to use too much force, and after digging, they would destroy the tomb directly, but I don't have to worry about it here, because I said that they might not be able to dig so deep if it is ten centimeters.

However, before I could go down any longer, I heard a noise and the ground shook slightly, so I hurriedly told the migrant workers to stop and go over to see what was going on.

Unexpectedly, a few centimeters below the layer of soil just now, a stone was exposed, and the sound just now was an iron tool on the stone. I thought to myself, no, could it be a sarcophagus? But when you feel the thickness of the stone, it doesn't look like a thin coffin.

I asked the migrant workers to change their fellows, put down the big farm tools, take a small scraper, and slowly clear the soil. As it unfolded little by little, it became clear to me that this was not a tomb, but a thick stone pillar, and that only one end of it had appeared. I don't know much about stone, I can't tell if it's bluestone or marble or anything, I just know that it's stone.

The migrant workers continued to clean up without hurry, but I was in a bit of a hurry, and I also helped with tools myself. The stone is very thick and not short in length, so there is still a long section underground, and I want to get it out as much as I can before I start working on it, and see what it is.

In my opinion, the general pillar stone can be used in several places, such as the stone railing on both sides of bridges and roads; pillars of large buildings, including Huabiao; There are also stone pillars on the Shinto and in the burial chamber of the cemetery. They are usually beautifully carved or ornamented. Judging from the ruins as a whole, it is more likely that the stone pillars of the building should be built, but the problem is that there are no architectural relics in our side, and there are no broken bricks and tiles. And from the current information, it seems that it is not very early to use stone pillars directly in construction, because generally large buildings are made of wood as columns and beams. This is the case with the golden stone, the puzzles are always one after the other, and maybe that's one of the charms.

I took two migrant workers to dig quickly, and the two of them asked me what it was, because there had never been anything like this on the construction site before. I told them my speculations, and they didn't seem to understand.

It took a lot of effort to finally expose it, and there was one side that was cut into the earth, and the other side was slick towards us, and it had two conspicuous places, one was that one end of it was perforated, and it seemed to be able to "thread the needle". The other is that the other end of it is red, I don't know if it's red paint, cinnabar, or ......

I called the horse team over to take a look, he looked at it for a while, and also felt that my idea was very reasonable, basically such a stone pillar can only be used in construction, but the problem is that the load-bearing stone pillar has not seen a hole in it, nor has it chiseled out a mortise and tenon structure of spliced wood, and other explorers have not found the corresponding structure for the time being, so he can't be sure for a while.

I finally have something, at least to prove that my detective is not the legendary "empty fart". We'll pack up our things and get to work, and we'll come back tomorrow to continue.

In the evening, when I was working on a problem, the horse team suddenly came to me and asked me, "Xiao Zhou, do you remember which floor that stone pillar is on today?"

"That's the layer you said came out of the garden, I compared it with you, and the stratum can't be wrong."

"Are you sure?"

"I'm sure, there were a few broken porcelain pieces in our side before, didn't you help set the times?"

"Alas, that's weird, I came back today to check the book, and I also asked my colleagues, no one has ever seen something like this, it stands to reason that things in the historical period of a province will not be too different, how can no one have seen it?"

"Don't ask me this question, I have seen less than you, you and several technician teachers don't know each other, and it's impossible for me to know each other."

"In that case, I'll ask my teacher to come and take a look, if he doesn't know him, then go to his circle and ask, maybe there will be a door, you go and continue to clean it up tomorrow, and strive to make its pit look better, he should be able to arrive in the afternoon." After saying goodbye to me, he went back to his room.

I also think it's strange, but it's useless to think more, there are so many books to read, and it's impossible to have a whimsical idea when you search your intestines, so it's better to go to bed early and rest.

The next day, I arranged for the villagers and continued to figure out how to make this thing myself. According to the rules of the field gold and stone work, he should be counted in a pit, and the horse team said that this is what it means to make the pit. However, this thing is different from others, because it is thick, heavy and large, if you directly get rid of the surrounding soil, it will have more than three-quarters of the surface exposed, but this pillar is buried obliquely, there is a risk of rolling and sliding, and it will not be good if it hurts me and the migrant workers; Another way is to ignore it first, first clean this layer, and then put the stratum down when there are no relics, which is safer, but it is not in accordance with the rules.

I have complained more than once about this kind of "procedure", and many workers and scholars insist on taking it as a golden rule, and there is no room for flexibility. However, any scientific research must be combined with real conditions, and Jinshi is no exception. Since the horizon is clear, why can't we record it first and then excavate it when it is safe to do so? If it is said that it is a professional ethics and bottom line not to take the excavations on the construction site, I very much agree with it, but I don't think there is any need to look at the specific working methods.

But the contradiction lies in the fact that the teacher of the horse team is known to me, a well-known but very rigid old expert, who studied under one of several Jinshi masters, and believes that the top-down, late-to-early method is the most scientific and perfect. So more is better than less, I don't need to make more things, I just cleaned the surroundings, and when he came to see it, I did it according to my own way. At that time, the horse team will not say much, he is not a particularly feudal person.

In the afternoon, an old man who looked quite old and dressed plainly came to the construction site, and the horse team hurried to pick it up. Although we have different views on "technology", the old man's words and deeds give people the feeling that he is indeed a scholar, and he has a demeanor, which is very different from the atmosphere in officialdom.

The horse team brought the old gentleman to the side of the probe, and he also felt strange when he saw such an object.

The horse team and I helped him down slowly, and he came closer, took out a glasses case from his pocket, and took out an old pair of glasses with rope tied to the back, wiped the corner of his coat vigorously, and put it on his head.

He looked through there, left and right, up and down, without saying a word. He didn't speak, the horse team didn't speak, I didn't speak, the migrant workers didn't speak, and there was a comical silence all around.

Suddenly, he looked up and asked me, "What else did you have under the floor when you cleaned up yesterday?"

I said, "No, that's all there is in the soil."

He shook his head: "This pit, you didn't do it to the end, there is still something underneath." Pony, you call a few migrant workers. ”

The horse team hurriedly beckoned to all those in our group. When the old man saw someone coming, he ordered, "Widen the pit a little around it, and then make a twenty centimeters under the stone pillar." After that, the migrant workers began to work with all hands and feet.

The horse team helped him out of the scout, and went to rest in the makeshift pergola for a while. I didn't dare to go, because this practice is what I am most worried about, and it is inevitable that so many migrant workers will be clumsy. So I've been watching, and trying not to have accidents, as much as possible.

Fortunately, a few people did a good job today, and more places on the pillar were exposed, but it was still slippery, bare, nothing, no carving, no words, and it still looked very abrupt.