The present paper is a brief account of the vestiges and objects unearthed from the Xipo site for the first time. H20 and H22 are man-made large round pits unclear in use. H1 was originally the remains of a semi-subterraneous dwelling and became a rubbish pit after its destruction. G1 is a reservoir, the first finding of this kind. The plenty of unearthed objects includes: pottery--the basin, bo bowl, jar, small-mouthed pointed-based bottle, fu cauldron, stove, zeng steamer, urn, bowl, cup,vessel cover, ring, ball, spindle whorl, pellet, arrowhead, bar, circular shard and mark-incised shard;stone tools--the axe, spade, knife, pestle, ball and top-shaped implement; and bone artifacts-the hairpin, arrowhead and peculiar-shape object. In addition, animal bones were also found in a great number.
In 2005 to 2006,Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology excavated a group of tombs of the Tang Dynasty at Xuecun Site in Xingyang City.The M2 in Excavation Zone IV is a well-preserved joint tomb of a couple buried in late Tang Dynasty yielding a set of epitaph and a set of grave goods including porcelains and potteries and so on.From the text of the epitaph,we know that the occupants were Song Hua,who was the Bingma Fushi(deputy commander)of Heyang Army and acting Taichang Qing(chief minister of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices),and his wife(nee Yan)interred in 820 A.D.The epitaph reflected that Song Hua was a member of the Wei-Bo(present-day southern Hebei and northern Henan)Faction,which provided new material for the researches on the situation of the military regional usurpation and the hierarchy of the middle and lower-ranked military officials in the middle and late Tang Dynasty.Meanwhile,the unearthed ceramics are also the references for the chronological and typological researches on the ceramics of the Tang Dynasty.
In the spring of 2001,the second excavation of Xipo site,Lingbao city,Henan province,was carried out by Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the No 1 Henan Team of the Institute of Archaeology,Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Theree big house foundations and other features have been found with a large number of pottery,stone and bone artifacts The excavation thus provides important information for the settlement pattern studies of the area The Yangshao remains of the site is believed to be the middle and late period of the Miaodigou phase
