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0154 Serindia : vol.2
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coming from the Western Regions, and effective safeguards taken that they would present
themselves for examination at Yü-mên, i.e. T. xiv, instead of attempting to circumvent it, as the
ground beyond T. xii might well have allowed them to do otherwise. Personal experience gained
in the course of my travels both in the East and West justifies my belief that the system of 'double
check' here assumed could be paralleled by exactly corresponding examples in abundance collected
on modern administrative borders, customs lines and the like, as well as by plentiful earlier historical
Position not evidence of the same sort.⁵ I may, in conclusion, point out that, while the position of T. xii is
suited for particularly well suited for an advanced post of control as described, it would certainly not have
head- been convenient for an important headquarters station on this frontier, such as the Jade Gate
quarters. undoubtedly was. The space available on the narrow plateau which at its end is occupied by T. xii
is far too confined for this purpose, and the water in the marshes which almost completely surround
it is salt now and probably was so in ancient times.⁶

Remains of The remains at T. xii were, as Fig. 181 and the plan in Plate 38 show, of a very modest kind.
watch- The badly-broken tower, originally about 21 feet square at its base, rose to about 18 feet
tower T. xii. in height. Its masonry consisted of bricks measuring about 15 by 8 inches and about
5 inches thick. The manner in which they were set, with the longer and shorter sides facing
outwards in alternate courses, closely resembled that observed in T. ix. There were also the usual
thin layers of reeds inserted after every three courses of brick. Parts of the broken brickwork on
the north side were reddened as if through some conflagration, and this was fully confirmed when the
much-decayed remains of a small structure came to be cleared a few yards off the north foot of the
tower. Nothing survived there except the foundations of square walls apparently built of stamped
clay. Within them a good deal of ashes and charred wood mingled with refuse. From the latter
and a rubbish-heap adjoining on the west there were recovered over a dozen inscribed slips, mostly
in poor preservation. Among those reproduced by M. Chavannes ⁷ only No. 597 need be noted
here as referring to the 'Hsien-ming company of Kuan-chi' 官 吉. We have seen already that
this may possibly have been the name of the locality occupied by T. xii and T. xii. a.⁸ The
numerous miscellaneous objects unearthed included fragments of greyish pottery of the familiar Han
type, T. xii. 1—3 (Plate IV); wooden seal-cases, 12, 13, 002; a wooden fire-stick ('female'), 006;
a bronze arrow-head, retaining its long iron tang, 0020 (Plate LIII); and several pieces of matting
and cane basket-work, 0024, 0030, besides the usual fragments of wooden fittings, fabrics, etc.

Watch- The marsh to the east of T. xii and T. xii. a deepened northward, and it was only after skirting
tower it for two miles or so that its marginal salt bog became passable. By making this détour I was
T. xiii.