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[[underline]] Chapter IX. [[/underline]]  185.

until much later times, knives had usually been merely razor-keen slips of split bamboo.  Lastly, numerous Han bricks, nearly all broken, were scattered about in the uppermost 4 or 5 feet of this part of the mound.

[[underline]] Finds in Tomb I. [[/underline]]
  As stated above, [[strikethrough (page 184), [[/strikethrough]] nearly all the objects that we found in the tombs themselves---as opposed to those that we encountered outside them, here and there in the earth of the mound---lay on or not far above the floor-levels of the two vaults, in the stratum of hard laminated soil already mentioned.  The latter material seemed to have been deposited [[underline]] after [[/underline]] the graves had been robbed of most of their contents; for otherwise it would have risen slowly, year by year, until it had enveloped them in their original positions and sealed them there at different levels above the floors.
  The morning after our discovery of Tomb I, in its central chamber (but in no other part of it) we uncovered a number of earthenware vessels and copper cash.  The latter, according to Mr. Ch'iu, were of an Eastern Han type that continued in circulation down to the Chin Dynasty (265-420 A.D.). The pottery also we recognized as Han, except for certain pieces which at first puzzled us considerably; for after wiping off most of the adherent earth, they looked to us more like lowgrade Sung celadons than anything else with which we were familiar.  We did not, in fact, realize until later that what we had found was a hitherto unknown Han ware, ancestral beyond much doubt to true porcelain.  We shall describe and discuss it at greater length in a moment.
  Among the other v^[[ess]]els---those of more usual Han type---were a small pot; a tall club-shaped vase^[[;]] [[strikethrough]](pl. XCIV), [[/strikethrough]] a globular jar of common coarse unglazed Han pottery; another of a black-surfaced iron-red ware, broken but nearly complete; and a small pot of dull black with everted lip.  There