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0075 Archaeological Researches in Sinkiang : vol.1
新疆の考古学的調査 : vol.1
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[Figure] 11 G・ゼーデルボム氏が描いた、墓地5の東部で発見された板材と柱の一部。斜線の部分は赤色、黒の部分は黒色を表しているParts of planks and posts from the eastern part of Cemetery 5. Hatching = red, black = black. From drawings by Mr. G. Söderbom.

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A lot of ox-skulls were also scattered around this part of the hill. A pair of
ram's horns were bound together with some coarse vegetable fibre.

All over the northern, eastern and southern slopes of the hill were scattered planks
and boards from disjointed coffins of various sizes together with fallen posts and
poles and oar-shaped monuments, Pl. IX b. The curiously shaped, heavy boards, curv-
ed and with a groove at each end (seen on Pl. VIII b) at first puzzled me very much.
It was not until the discovery and excavation of the intact coffin 5 A that I realized
the significance of these boards: that they were the sides of coffins. The largest
found were 47 cm. broad. There had been altogether 120 coffins in this burial
place, but, as will be seen from the plan in Fig. 9, only eight could be located in
situ. It is a remarkable fact that all the coffins are of the same construction (de-
scribed in connection with Grave 5 A from which description it will also be realized
how easily these coffins fall to pieces).

More than one hundred standing posts are marked on the plan. I counted seventy-
five fallen posts. Of the oar-like monuments fourteen were standing and fifteen lay
prostrate. The sand forming the crest of the hill may hide some more "oars" or other
lower monuments.

Though treasure hunters had ravaged wantonly on this site they could not be the
only cause of the destruction. The wood of the coffins was as dried-up, sun-bleached

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