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[[underline]] Chapter VIII. [[/underline]]  149.

to investigate, and which we learned was situated in a locality called the Wang Fên Wa [[ 3 Chinese characters]], "Hollow (or swamp) of the king's mound". [[superscript]] (151) [[/superscript]]
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[[superscript]] (151) [[/superscript]] I recall suggesting, in the course of this conversation, that perhaps the "Wang" here might not refer to a ruler but be merely the very common name---possibly that of the individual or family for whom the tomb had been built. I found however that the generality of local opinion negatived this idea.
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The tomb-chamber, they told us, was covered by a tumulus, into which a party of peasants had dug the previous October in search of Han Dynasty bricks; for these, it appeared, had here a regular market value of a copper apiece, being re-used in building. [[superscript]] (152) [[/superscript]]  The tomb thus found seemed to 
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[[superscript]] (152) [[/superscript]] Search for such bricks is a regular "off-season" occupation among the local peasantry, who must thus have destroyed countless Han Dynasty structures.  As we later saw for ourselves, the town wall surrounding Yu Ho Chên contained vast numbers of these ancient bricks (see [[strikethrough]] fig. xxx) pl. LXX) [[/strikethrough]] ^[[pl. 27, fig. 1).]]
  Burnt bricks, usually dark gray in color, seem to have been employed in Han times mainly if not exclusively in the construction of important tombs.  For the habitations of the living, wood and tamped earth were the usual materials.
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have been already looted, perhaps centuries before; but structurally it appears to have been practically intact.  The vault, our hosts told us, had been walled and roofed (and floored, as we found later) with brick; while in the middle of its southern face there had been a double doorway with leaves of dressed stone.
  What had been the character of the roof, I could not make out clearly from the descriptions, although according to our informants (some of whom said that they had seen it) it had been arched in some way and had rested on four brick supports.  Nor could I learn the positions or even the types of certain bronze objects and earthenware vessels said to have been discovered in the tomb by the peasants; or whether the l^[[a]]tter had come upon any of those clay figurines often found in connection with Han Dynasty burials.  We did hear however that the looters had [[strikethrough]] gotten some [[/strikethrough]] ^[[found some]] bronze mirrors, and also that they had picked up a small bronze

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