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[[underline]] Chapter VIII. [[underline]]  152.
more probably in) the Lei Ku T'ai mound there had once been an Eastern Han construction of some sort, which might repay investigation.  We resolved to keep the place in mind; although with so much of the mound occupied by growing grain and (from our point of view, worse still) recent graves, I feared that the chances of our being permitted to do any digging there would be slight.
From the Lei Ku T'ai we walked northwest for about a mile and half, the latter part of the distance across the deeply dissected remains of a red clay plateau (pl.29, fig. 2). These formed a succession of roughly parallel ridges, broken down in many cases into rows of sharp pinnacles and divided from one another by brushy, steep-sided ravines draining southward toward the Yu Ho.  On the summits of the these "badlands" lay scattered about broken bricks and potsherds of the Eastern Han period, their presence there indicating pretty clearly that the dissection of the area had taken place since then.
The local peasantry maintained that what we saw were in reality the ruined walls of a nameless ancient city which they variously ascribed to the Han period and even to that of Ch'u Chuang Wang.  Individually, these ridges did in fact resemble eroded remnants of earthen walls such as surround so many northern Chinese villages ([[underline]] cf. [[underline]] fig. 22, foreground).  At one point in our walk a peasant showed us a copper cash of the Northern Sung Dynasty (960-1126 A.D.) that he had picked up in the vicinity.  Again, a lad showed us several thin and corroded laminae of copper or bronze, perhaps from scale armor of the Western Han Dynasty (156).  We also
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During the closely following Eastern Han period, scales of iron for armor seem to have come into use.
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saw numerous small grave-mounds, both ancient and modern, most of the former bearing scars left by brick-hunters who had dug into them.