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0460 Innermost Asia : vol.1
極奥アジア : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000187
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Finds at
T. xxiii. c.

Within the area enclosed by the wall on the top of the Mesa, pottery debris was abundant,
clear evidence that the station had been tenanted by a considerable number of men and for a long
time. From a layer of refuse between the western knoll and that occupied by the tower I extracted,
lying almost on the surface, the well-preserved Chinese record on wood, T. xxiii. c. 4. Eleven
more wooden slips were subsequently discovered here and among the rubbish lying close to the
tower. Among the miscellaneous small objects recovered may be mentioned the fragment of a
wooden bowl decorated in lacquer, T. xxiii. c. 02 ; the piece of an iron hoe-blade, 04 (Pl. XLVII) ;
and two bronze arrow-heads of the 'regulation' type of Han times, 06–7 (Pl. XLVII). [Among the
records recovered T. xxiii. c. 4 has proved to contain the draft of a private letter. T. xxiii. c. 016
indicates the exact place of origin in distant Ho-nan of a soldier who has died. In T. xxiii. c. 022
the local name of P'o-hu 玻 胡 occurs again.²⁴ T. xxiii. c. 023 contains the fragment of a
calendar from the year 4 B. C.]

Position of
advanced
tower
T. xxiii. e.

At a distance of about a mile and a half to the north could be seen the watch-tower T. xxiii. e,
situated in advance of the Limes line. The lake shore which it guarded was masked from direct
observation from T. xxiii. c by a gravel-covered ridge. Owing to the boggy condition of the
ground it proved impossible at the time to reach this tower. It evidently served a purpose similar
to that which accounted for the placing of the advanced post T. ix. a, thrown out beyond the line
of the westernmost Limes.²⁵ It was needed for the better protection of an important point where
this section of the Limes rested its flank on the Khara-nōr and moreover, as the map shows, formed
a projecting angle. The presence of this angle itself was probably due to the desire to take
advantage of the very wide outlook commanded by the height of T. xxiii. c. This extended far
away to the north-east, to the point where the Su-lo-ho, joined by the deltaic branches of the Tang-ho,
enters the Khara-nōr. It ranged also over the bare plain to the east where the salt-encrusted
depression coming from Chien-ch'üan-tzŭ is fringed by a wind-eroded area with rows of low
Yārdangs.

Remains
of watch-
tower
T. xxiii. d.

From T. xxiii. c the line of wall, now decayed into a low mound, ran to the south-east towards
a far-stretching Mesa about a hundred feet high and less than a mile off. The ground, salt-
encrusted throughout and boggy, could scarcely have supported us but for the firmer track offered
by the mound marking the Limes line. On the top of the Mesa a completely decayed mound
marked the remains of the tower T. xxiii. d. Around it pottery debris was plentiful. The speci-
mens collected here and described in the List below comprise pieces of glazed stoneware such as
those which had been found by me at T. xxix.²⁶ Mr. R. L. Hobson, of the British Museum, attri-
butes these partly to T'ang and partly to Sung times. The evidence of later occupation of the
place which these pieces afford is borne out by four fragments of porcelain, T. xxiii. d. 010–13,
which were also found here, three belonging to the same vessel and all roughly painted in blue.²⁷
What special reason accounts for this later occupation I am unable to indicate, as no route likely
to have remained in continued use leads past this point.

Tower
T. xxiii. f
and its well.

At T. xxiii. d the line of the wall took a turn to the ENE. and at a distance of nearly a mile
brought us to a narrow isolated clay ridge (see plan in Pl. 14) running east and west and about
a hundred yards long. Its summit, rising about 35 feet above the adjoining ground and only
25 feet across at its widest, bore the tower T. xxiii. f (Fig. 202). This was built of lumps of clay,
with layers of thin Toghrak branches inserted to reinforce the masonry. It measured 14 feet
at the base and still rose to a height of about 16 feet. No other structural remains were traceable