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[[underline]] Chapter IX. [[/underline]]             186.

was also a small earthenware model of a cookstove shaped like a half-cylinder, of a pale reddish-buff, unglazed. We found likewise a flat, rectangular, and highly polished tablet of slate, some 20 [[underline]] cm. [[/underline]] long by 16 [[underline]] cm. [[/underline]] wide, whose purpose we could only guess. Perhaps it had once borne an inscription in ink or paint, now vanished; or possibly, we surmised, it might have been something in the nature of a palette for grinding or mixing cosmetics.
   Spaced at fairly regular intervals from north to south across the eastern end of the tomb, and lying not in but on the laminated earth, were the remains of three knobbed iron spikes which we thought might once have been affixed as bosses or studs to a wooden doorway or crossbeam; they were too badly rusted and decomposed to allow us to make out their details. In the central chamber, near the floor and about 5 feet apart north and south, were two much corroded iron handles of some sort, apparently once square in cross-section, and with knobbed ends; these had probably, we thought, been connected in some way with a coffin or other wooden object formerly present in the chamber. All else had been removed by tomb-robbers or had mouldered away.

[[underline]] Finds in Tomb II. [[/underline]]
   Tomb II, we found, had been even more thoroughly rifled. The few objects still remaining in it were likewise or very near the level of the floor. Among them were a few pots found, just as in Tomb I, in the central chamber only. They included 4 pieces---2 small bowls and 2 globular jars---of that "porcel[[strikethrough]]l[[/strikethrough]]anous" ware that we had at first thought must be Sung celadons (though what these were doing in a Han tomb we had been unable to say). We found here also several earthenware lamps prectically identical (though there were slight individual variations) with the one already described (p. 180 and Pl. 35, fig. 1); [[superscript]] (174) [[/superscript]] more Han cash; and