At first sight, the coffin was filled with some kind of "black mud" and smelled like rotten eggs.
"Damn it! These are copper coins!"
Dou Sprout has sharp eyes, so I didn't even notice him. He didn't mind being dirty, so he even grabbed a handful of copper coins, including dozens of them.
I took a look at it and said it was five baht from the Western Han Dynasty.
The five-baht coin is easy to identify because the square hole in the middle of the coin is relatively large.
"How much is this?" Dou Sprout turned to ask me.
I said, "Put it aside for now. Tons of five-baht coins were unearthed in Han tombs. They only cost one yuan each and can buy three steamed buns."
"Fuck, why is it only one dollar?" Dou Sprout looked disappointed and threw it into the bucket.
"Hey? I saw it again! There's a big jade bowl buried there!"
"Big jade bowl? Where?"
"It's right there!" Bean Sprouts took two steps and reached out to dig.
Indeed, it is basically buried in the black mud, with only a little outline showing, like a jade bowl.
I said, why are your damn eyes so sharp? You can see this.
In this case, if the archaeological team were to do it, they would first take pictures, then take a small brush and brush it bit by bit for a long time.
But Dou Sprout looked so excited that he just took it out with his bare hands.
"Fuck, no!"
Dou Sprout looked at it and threw it away.
This is not a big jade bowl, this is a dead man's skull, turned upside down and buried in the mud, it looks like a bowl.
Jade swords were also found, two rusty short-handled bronze swords, indicating that the owner of the tomb was a male. If it was a female, there would be no such things as swords and weapons in the coffin.
Just when we all thought this was a Han tomb, something was discovered that overturned this conclusion.
I found another kind of copper coin and washed the mud with water. The inscriptions on the copper coin can be vaguely seen.
"Oizumi Fifty".
"The head..." I said in surprise: "This is not from the Han Dynasty, this is from the Xinmang period!"
Why do you say that.
Because coins minted by later dynasties cannot appear in the coffins of previous dynasties!
Xinmang and the late Western Han Dynasty were very close, and many bronzes were completely consistent in style and could not be subdivided. Just like the blue and white porcelain of Xuande and Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, "Yongxuan is not divided into families."
The coffin was well preserved, but only half of the skull of the tomb owner was left. The other bones were not seen, and they were probably turned into foam and mixed in the mud.
We also unearthed a palm-sized bronze mirror with grain nail patterns and a flattened lacquer box. The contents inside were strips of wood, which should be the "famous thorns" of the Xinmang period.
The name card is the originator of modern business cards. Each wooden board is 15 cm long and 3 cm wide. It may record the name of the tomb owner, when he died, etc. Unfortunately, the calligraphy on the name card can no longer be seen clearly.
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He was very careful and wrapped these fragile thorns with plastic wrap. He said that when he went back, he would soak them in a potion from the archaeological team, and maybe he could see the calligraphy on the thorns clearly.
