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Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books

OBJECTS EXCAVATED AT WATCH-TOWER T. XLIV. a

T. XLIV. a. 01. Fr. of edge of grass mat; roughly woven.
12″×3¼″.

T. XLIV. a. 03. Fr. of wooden stick, hard and heavy;
split down centre (other half missing). Whittled surface.
One end charred, other end shaped but incomplete. 18″
from charred end, four Chinese characters written in ink.
26¼″×1⅛″×⅝″. Pl. XLVI.

T. XLIV. a. 04. Wooden spatula; broad and thin. Similar
to T. XLIV. b. 035, but complete, with handle tapering
and cut to chisel point. 8¼″×1⅛″×¹⁄₁₆″.

T. XLIV. a. 05. Wooden object of hammer-head shape;
slightly tapering one way towards ends, but actual
'panes' shouldered out to full width; hole through centre.
3¼″×1⅛″×1¼″. Pl. XLVII.

T. XLIV. a. 06. Fr. of wooden spatula; handle broken.
Similar to T. XXIII. a. 07. 4⅜″×1⅛″.

T. XLIV. a. 07. Wooden wedge-shaped object, cut
round at thick end. 1⅝″×⅞″×⅞″.

T. XLIV. a. 08. Wooden peg; small and tapering with
groove ¼″ from thick end containing string. Cf. Ser. iv.
Pl. XXXV, L.A. v. ii. 1. 3″×1″.

T. XLIV. a. 09. Bag of strainer, made of plaited horse-
hair 2¼″×1⅛″. Pl. XLVII.

T. XLIV. a. 010, 011. Frs. of canvas; coarse and strong.
Larger 5⅛″×2⅛″.

T. XLIV. a. 012. Fr. of leather shoe sole, showing
leather stitching at edge. 4¼″×3⅜″.

T. XLIV. a. 013. Fr. of pottery, from bottom of vessel,
of fine pottery, sides faceted, as in T. XII. c. 03. Inside
very regularly moulded into low relief spiral. Diam. 4¼″.
Pl. XLVIII.

T. XLIV. a. 015. Bronze arrow-head, three-sided, flat;
as Ser. iv. Pl. LIII, T. XII. a. i. 005. 1″×⅝″. Pl. XLVII.

OBJECTS EXCAVATED AT WATCH-TOWER T. XLIV. b

T. XLIV. b. 01, 05. Two square wooden prisms; the
large surfaces divided by two diagonals and a short dia-
meter in ink, with a dot in each end division. One end
of one blackened. 01, 1⅛″׳⁄₁₆″×⅝″; 05, 1⅛″×⅝″׳⁄₁₆″.
Pl. XLVII.

T. XLIV. b. 02. Wooden spatula, similar to T. XLIII.
k. 011, but narrower, and the angular end more elongated.
Chamfered on the long edges of one surface. 4″×1″×¼″.

T. XLIV. b. 03. Fr. of wooden slip; rectangular, split into
two pieces, broken away at one end and partly at other.
Traces of Chinese character at partly broken end. Reverse,
large dab of black ink. 1¼″×5¼″×¹⁄₁₆″.

T. XLIV. b. 04, 06. Two square wooden prisms
with one end pyramidal, of fine-grained light wood.
Roughly made, perhaps 'chessmen'. Cf. T. XLIII. b. 08.
1⅝″×¼″×⅞″; 1″×1⅛″×¹⁄₁₆″. Pl. XLVII.

T. XLIV. b. 07-9. Frs. of wood. 07. Round stick,
broken away at one end. Perhaps eating-stick. 5⁵⁄₁₆″×¼″. 08.
Roughly rounded stick, partly squared at one end. 4⅜″×¾″.
09. Round stopper-like object, flattened at one side from
end to end, and partly flattened on opposite side. Diameter
diminished by shoulder 1¼″ from thick end. 1⅞″×¾″
to ⅝″.

T. XLIV. b. 010. Wooden stylus; flattened, gently
tapering and curved slightly in its length. Part of bark
remains. 6¼″×¹⁄₁₆″.

T. XLIV. b. 011. Wooden spatula with broad flat blade,
smoothed and slightly rounded. 7⅛″×1⅛″ (blade).

T. XLIV. b. 012. Wooden cover, for mouth of vessel, with
chamfered overhanging top, notched for cords. Marks of
burning. 4⅛″ diam.

T. XLIV. b. 013. Wooden cleat (?). Rectangular, roughly
rounded at ends and with roughly squared hole ⅝″×¼″
near each end. 5¼″×1⅛″×¼″.

T. XLIV. b. 014. Wooden wedge; rounded at thick end
and with remains of black paint. Well made. 2³⁄₁₆″×
¹⁄₁₆″×¼″.

T. XLIV. b. 015. Pottery jar; wheel-made. Flat-bottomed,
sides expanding to shoulder c. 5″ from bottom, and thence
curving in to short straight neck. Straight, slightly
thickened rim. Upper part of body faintly ribbed horizon-
tally, as if by finger, and lower part scraped vertically.
Remains of hemp cord tied round neck. Much caked with
sand, inside and out; part of neck and shoulder broken
away. H. 7¼″, diam. of base 3¼″, of mouth 3⅛″, gr. (at
shoulder) 6¼″. Pl. XXV.

T. XLIV. b. 034. Wooden writing-tablet, unfinished.
Raised end for seal cav. sawn across with five grooves for
string, but cav. only partly cut out. Other end cut off
sq. at length of ¼″. Under-side unsmoothed. Wood
hard. 5¼″×1⅛″×⅜″ to ³⁄₁₆″.

T. XLIV. b. 035-6. Two wooden spatulas, very roughly
cut. 035 has long broad blade, straight with handle, which
is broken off short. 036 spade-shaped blade, slightly
curved, and of reddish cedar-like wood. One edge of each
blade lost. Gr. length (036) 7⅜″, gr. width (incomplete) 1⅛″.

T. XLIV. b. 037. Wooden counter (?) for game. Small solid
block, boat-shaped in outline, one face convex and rising
to more or less level ridge, ⅜″ long, down middle of face.
One face shows shallow groove cut across this ridge, and
remains of dark paint. The other has a cross-cut on either
side of centre of ridge, another from each end of ridge to