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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 potterySea pottery

Also 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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