Compared to Tomb M2, where the tomb was only dug and broken, the burial chamber has not been destroyed.

The situation at Tomb M1 is really miserable.

During the construction on the site, the excavator workers did not realize that they had dug up the tomb at all, and the entire tomb was dug out and piled up in a mound of sand.

After receiving the task from his mentor, Chen Han put on his gloves and walked to the sand mound.

Seven or eight colleagues from the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences have been meticulously sifting through the scattered cultural relics collected in the sand mounds.

Chen Han took a cursory look and saw that there were still a lot of utensils, including bronze, jade, and stone.

A number of bronze ropes, bronze ge, bronze arrowheads, and bronze fragments have been collected and are being numbered and registered.

"This mound of sand is the filling of tomb M1, and the cultural relics collected in this mound of sand are all compiled into the unearthed relics of tomb M1!"

Professor Li frowned and instructed the archaeologists to carefully sift through the pile of sand in front of them.

Many of the artifacts in Tomb M1 are hidden in this pile of sand and soil, and they should not be taken lightly.

However, when Chen Han looked at Professor Li's expression, why was he so serious, and even a little sad?

"Xiao Chen, are you here?"

Seeing Chen Han, Professor Li's frown eased slightly, but he soon regained his worried expression.

"The situation at Tomb M1 is not optimistic."

Professor Li sighed, and pulled Chen Han, who had not yet entered the working state, to the side of the sand mound, where several cultural relics in the fill were placed in a part of the soil that had been sorted out by the previous construction unit.

"Lao Kong and I have already learned about the situation with the person in charge of the construction unit."

"In the process of leveling the land, the construction unit dug up most of the upper part of the pit of Tomb M1 through mechanical operations."

"It is also because there are a certain number of bronzes and fragments in the excavated fill, which has aroused the attention of the person in charge of the construction unit, and the suspension of work has applied for the intervention of relevant departments."

"But when we went to the site to investigate and confirm, there were only about 20 centimeters left at the bottom of the pit of Tomb M1 that had not been dug up."

Chen Han scratched his head and asked with some puzzlement, "Professor, where is the coffin?" No matter how slow the construction unit reacts, when digging up the coffin, it can always react that this is a tomb, how can it only react when it digs to the bottom? ”

Generally, the height of the coffin in the grave pit must be about one meter high, even if the excavator master of the construction unit has a longer reflection arc, when digging more than one meter from the bottom of the pit, it is time to see the coffin.

Unless, there is no coffin in this tomb, it will dig to the bottom, and the bronze objects will be dug up before they react.

Sure enough, Professor Li sighed: "The coffin and skeleton have all decayed, so the construction unit did not find that this was a grave pit when it was excavated." ”

If the coffin is gone, there will be no place like a burial in the grave except for the burial goods.

If the master of the excavator had not been careful to observe each shovel of excavated sand, he would have really not noticed that this was a tomb.

It's understandable.

However, the coffins are rotten, which is not good news.

Generally speaking, if the tomb has not been excavated after the tomb owner is buried, even if it is a tomb in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the coffin will not be completely decayed.

There are still a lot of tombs of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period excavated by the Chinese archaeological community, and the situation of complete decay of the coffin has indeed occurred.

But those tombs where the coffins are decayed are usually accompanied by another key point.

It's all stolen graves.

With some inquiring glances in his eyes, Chen Han lowered his head and scanned back and forth among the cultural relics that had been cleaned up.

Sure enough, among the bronzes and pottery that had been extracted, there was still an item that was obviously not of the same age as these burial objects.

A piece of iron!

Tie Zhen!

In a tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty, an iron shovel appeared, which was obviously very incompatible!

"Is this a tomb that has been stolen and dug up?" Chen Han pointed to this piece of iron and said with some disappointment.

Professor Li nodded: "Yes, this piece of iron was found in the grave fill of Tomb M1, and it should have been left behind after the tomb robbers dug into the tomb." ”

That's why Professor Li has been frowning and worried.

Judging from the shape, this iron piece should be an iron tool from the Warring States period to the Han Dynasty.

臿 (chā) is the same as the word insertion, and it is a kind of agricultural tool for shoveling soil.

Weiyun is its predecessor, and the spade is his successor.

This thing flourished in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and was basically widely used in agricultural work in the Han Dynasty.

Of course, it is also widely loved by tomb robbers, and in the past, it was mostly found in the robbery holes of tombs.

Not to mention ancient tomb robbers, in modern times, many modern tomb robbers have to use iron catalpa to dig the soil when robbing tombs, a reason.

The fact that such an iron mound was left in the pit filling indicates that tomb M1 was stolen less than 300 years after its burial.

It may be the Warring States period at the earliest, and the Western Han Dynasty at the latest, and the burial goods in the tomb have been stolen.

It is estimated that there will not be many left for modern archaeologists.

"After cleaning, it can be determined that the bottom of the tomb is about 7.1 meters long and 5.9 meters wide according to the different soil layers."

Professor Li said with great pity: "From the size of the remaining tomb floor, it can be inferred that the scale of this tomb is not small. ”

"There is a high probability that it is a tomb of the princes of the Spring and Autumn Period!"

"It's a pity that it's been stolen."

"I hope that tomb M2 of the same size has not been stolen and excavated."

Professor Li was a little apprehensive.

However, Chen Han is not optimistic about the situation of tomb M2 at all.

Standing next to the excavation site, he could see that Tomb M1 and Tomb M2 were not far apart, and could even be said to be next to each other.

The relationship between these two tomb owners must have been unusual during their lifetimes, maybe it was husband and wife, or father and son, who were buried so close.

Tomb M1 was stolen, and the probability that the adjacent tomb M2 was not stolen is very low.

In fact, the tombs of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were the most seriously stolen among the tombs of all ages in China.

Because in the tombs of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, bronze artifacts were mostly buried.

And copper has always been the precious metal currency of China.

In which era, it was hard currency, so from the beginning of the Warring States period to the Tang and Song dynasties, the tombs of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and the Two Han Dynasty were widely loved by tomb robbers.

Stealing tombs in this era has many valuable things, whether in ancient times or modern times, it is all appropriate to get rich!

A large part of the tombs of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period have been patronized by several generations of tomb robbers, and may have been stolen once in the Western Han Dynasty, again in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and again in the Northern and Southern Dynasties......

Even so, some of the Spring and Autumn Warring States tombs that have been stolen more than a dozen times in different periods have been rescued and excavated in modern times, and dozens of burial goods can still be unearthed...

It's no wonder that the tombs of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period will always be remembered by thieves, there are too many valuable funeral goods!

Unlike the tombs after the Han Dynasty, thin burials began to be advocated, and there were not so many burial goods, especially the hard currency was less, and the theft was not so profitable, and the situation of natural theft and excavation was also smaller.

It's like the sentence in "Six Tao Proverbs".

The world is bustling, all for profit.

The world is crowded, all for profit.

Tomb robbers also come for profit.

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