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The turn-overs of the different deposits may be merely a displacement of positions of the artifacts on a horizontal plane, or upside down, and its reverse.  The removal of the artifacts from one place to another, sometime many meters apart, might have taken place under many different conditions; when such happened, it is very difficult to trace the displaced artifacts to the original home.  The vertical displacements are sometime capable of being restored.  One of the pits opened in the first period of the fall season(Lo2abBw) may serve as a very good example of vertical displacement.  The surface dimensions of this pit is 2 meters NS by 3 meters EW, the virgin soil appeared at the depth of 4.20 meter, immediately below the burial of Po Jen(卜仁).  The burial contains a square stone tablet with a biographical record of the dead inscribed on it.  According to this obituary, Po Jen died on the 16th day of the third moon, in the third year of Jen-shou(仁壽) of the Sui Dynasty(namely, May 2, 603 A.D.).  A number of glazed potteries and tomb figures were found in this burial(Plate Ia).It can be readily observed that no further disturbance took place after this burial. But what is the nature of the deposit above the burial?  It is certainly worthwhile to go into greater detail at this point.  The following records are based on the field notes kept by Mr. Tung Tso-ping: 

1. The first half meter.
From the surface to the depth of 0.45m. all is yellow, except some brownish deposit in the NE corner.  But below the 0.50m. all is brownish occassionally mixed with clay.

2. 0.50-1.00m.
Burned clay occassionally found; there are also string-impressed pot-shards, and a piece of porcelain.  At 0.60m, a piece of tortoise shell is found.

3. 1.00-1.45m.
At the depth of 1.15, brownish earth begins to be mixed yellowish earth,