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Smelt the iron site and travel in ancient Ying Zhengzhou of China

Smelt the iron site and travel in ancient Ying Zhengzhou of China

Write: Tomo [2011-05-23]

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Take Bus No. 322 and get off at terminus

Introduce

Smelt the iron site and lie in market the Northwest of Zhengzhou in ancient Ying. With an area of 120,000 square meters. Find two big blast furnaces of iron-smelting at present, stove jar is shown in oval, the oven, stove base were built with dark brown seat clay rammer, a wooden trace that in front of the stove, the stove side smelts.

Unearthed casting moulds and ironware finished products that form a complete set in a large amount, mostly have rivers one near the blast furnace Inscription, the products mainly product tool. Have paid off and paid attention to traces related to smelting such as 14 pottery kilns and ship shape hole,etc.

while exploring. The times of the site are the period from middle period of Western Han Dynasty to the Eastern Han Dynasty. It proves it is the smelting and uniting the workshop of officer s camp, have great meanings in studying China s metallurgical history to explore materials.