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Refuse at
L.A. vi. ii
searched
afresh.

and L.A. III, carefully searched afresh and with ample reward for this unsavoury labour. As
recorded in Serindia,⁷ it had on the previous occasion been impossible to remove these big accumula-
tions of dirt, and in turning over their layers some forty more records on wood and paper were
recovered. Most of them were fragments of Chinese slips or paper documents. But in addition
to a number of complete Chinese slips the fresh haul comprised also a small rectangular cover-
tablet (L.A. vi. ii. 057, Pl. XVIII) inscribed in Kharoṣṭhī, which judging from its shape
appears to have served as a lid to a box,⁸ as well as a novelty in the shape of a small silk bag
inscribed in Kharoṣṭhī (Pl. XVII).⁹ Among miscellaneous objects from the same large rubbish-
heap it will suffice specially to mention the well-preserved fragment, L.A. vi. ii. 05 (Pl. XLIII), of
a loom-woven textile decorated with a floral pattern ; a neat little bag in crimson silk, L.A. vi. ii.
06 ; various small wooden implements ; a piece of green-glazed pottery, L.A. vi. ii. 017, &c.

Refuse
near
dwelling
L.A. iv.

Considerable refuse deposits, not previously examined, were traced also near the large dwelling
L.A. IV situated to the south of L.A. vi.¹⁰ From those to the south-east, x, several Chinese records
were brought to light, including a complete paper document of large size in excellent preservation.
Among the miscellaneous objects found here and in the rubbish layers, xi, to the west and south-
west of the dwelling, the remains of a horn saddle-tree, obviously for use on a donkey, L.A. v. x. 01
(Pl. XVI) ; some pads of woollen fabric and felt, L.A. v. x. 05–8 ; a piece of basket-marked grey
pottery, L.A. v. x. 013 (Pl. XXVII), closely corresponding to the common type of Han pottery on
the Tun-huang Limes, may be specially mentioned.

Miscellane-
ous finds
behind
' Yamên '.

On the narrow strip of ground along the north side of the main wall in the ' Ya-mên '-like
building L.A. II, running at the back of the brick-built rooms L.A. II. ii.–iv,¹¹ some consolidated
refuse had previously escaped notice. Erosion had left little of it, but there were some interesting
finds among the layers, which consisted mainly of camel-dung and reed-straw. The timber-and-
wattle built room II. vi had attracted my attention in 1906 by its superior construction, and the
high sitting platform and panelled window which it comprised ;¹² close to this room were found
some much-decayed fragments of painted wall plaster. The specimen brought away, L.A. II. 04,
shows remains of a geometrical pattern. The interest of these plaster fragments lay in their con-
taining wheat-straw, conclusive evidence of cultivation having been carried on in the vicinity of
the ancient station. The fragment of a carved wooden frame, L.A. II. 05 (Pl. XVI), also found
there, is of interest, as the decorative pattern of lozenges filled with four-petalled flowers shows
a very close resemblance to designs common to ornamental wood-carving both of the Lou-lan
ruins L.B. and the Niya Site.¹³

Documents
in Chinese
and other
scripts.

We also recovered an interesting series of documents on paper outside the walls of rooms
vi and vii. Apart from numerous Chinese fragments including the three large pieces L.A. II. x.
03–6, there were found here two small fragments in Early Sogdian script (Pl. CXXIV) and the
scrap of a document, L.A. II. x. 018, in an as yet undeciphered script. This with its partly
looped, partly elongated characters curiously recalled the script in the legends on the White Hun
coins. A very careful search made for the remainder of this document proved fruitless. Some

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