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6. also the most important finds. The second digging in the cotton field is located about 37cm. NE of the central digging. Only three shafts were run, but it was a very fruitful one. Practically all the arrowheads were found here and what is more important, we discovered fragments of bronze moulds. So in discussing the nature of the deposit of this site, the observations of this season in these three localities, which are to be respectively called the Southern, the Central and the Northern Digging (Map V)[[strikethrough]] Fig. 1- )[[/strikethrough]], furnish the fundamental data. The underground conditions show a great deal of disturbances. The causes responsible for such disturbances are complicated. It is part of our work to disentangle such causes, so that a right understanding of the nature of the deposit might be reached. The inhabitants of the village whose history dates back to the Ming Dynasty, have built houses, dug wells, cultivated trees and buried their dead on this very spot for more than three hundred years. They have moreover, accumulated debris where it is low, and levelled ground where it is uneven in the course of cultivating the land. It is due to the latter operation that the inscribed bones were incidentally brought out of the hidden place, which were the beginning of the almost incessant activity of the curio-dealers in the last thirty years. These blind diggings have laid open a great deal of these hidden documents and attracted the attention of antiquarians all over the world. But it is by no means unfair to say the they have destroyed more than what they saved. And up to the present time nobody learned much about the associated finds of the inscribed bones. Whatever is known can not be stated with certainty. Besides, it is also the most important cause responsible for the underground disturbed condition. However it is not meant to go into the history of the destruction of this site, which, has
