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China Inland, Shaanxi
Tongchuan
Chenlu pottery town
Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Sea potteryAlso reported: Eyes-only: jar walls, kiln mounds, working workshops; buyable: modern Yaozhou-style celadon and folk ware.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain).
Why this spot
1,400 years of unbroken Yaozhou-tradition firing; a hill town whose walls are stacked glaze jars and whose lanes are paved with shards
Shard-paved roads and pottery-jar walls widely documented; 30-plus historic kiln sites and 26 working potteries
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Steep lanesLoose slope debris, remote roads
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