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Bronze helmet An extraordinary quantity of bronze weaponry
— spear points, dagger-axes, arrow points, knives —
Height 18.7 (/Vs), weight 2.21 (4 7s)
sets the Dayangzhou find apart from most Shang
Late Shang Period (c. 1200-1050 BCE) period tombs (the supposed royal tombs of Anyang
From Dayangzhou, Xin'gan, Jiangxi Province
are exceptional in this respect). For example, at
Jiangxi Provincial Museum, Nanchang Tomb 1004 at Xibeigang, within a large undisturbed
area several levels below the juncture of the shaft
and the south ramp, the excavators found two large
fangding, a collection of 360 spear points, and still
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