Preliminary study of foundry area of bronze vessels excavated from Gaozhuang Tomb in Jiangsu
淮阴高庄战国墓出土青铜器产地初步研究

In this paper some residual clay moulds in Huaiyin bronze excavated from Jiangsu Province were analyzed. From XRF and lithofacies analyses, it found that some components, such as SiO2, Na2O etc., were very low, while other components, such as CaO, MgO and P2O5 were high. It could infer that the technique were different for the clay moulds between Huaiyin tomb and Zuozhong tomb. Furthermore, the ICP-AES analytical results indicated that the foundry area of the bronze vessels excavated from Gaozhuang tomb was in Chu state. The results also suggested that the owner of these bronzes was a noble of Chu state.