Two grave tombs were discovered during the Hung Vuong period

The excavation of the famous Go De burial site revealed two ancient tombs. They contribute to understanding the spiritual life of residents of the Hung Vuong period as well as once again affirming that this place is a major contemporary center of the ancestral land.

In early December 2006, the Institute of Archeology in conjunction with the Phu Tho Department of Culture and Information unearthed the tomb of Go De, Thanh Dinh commune, Lam Thao district, Phu Tho province. This is a large burial site, since the 70s of the last century, has found many precious bronze items. In 2003, the tomb of a leader of the Hung Vuong era had many weapons like spears and axes discovered.

Find 2 unique tombs

The first tomb is the grave . Size is quite large with stem diameter of 55 cm, height of 40 cm. The pot is made of coarse, light black pottery. It is noteworthy that the bottom of the crest has 3 items depending on the burial is 2 cults, 1 ax of square heel. These are the wealth that the living people have given to the dead to make capital to bring to the afterlife to do business.

Ear piercings have pearl stones.(Photo: Lao Dong, VNE)

There are no bones in the jar, so it is difficult to predict how to bury. The size of pottery is large, but not large enough to bury the body exactly like the tombs of the Sa Huynh culture in the coastal area of ​​the Central Vietnam. Nor can it be a crematorium, because there is no trace of coal ash in it. Is this a kind of cottage to hold remains after reburial? In fact, the burial continued in us only in later stages, during the Northern period, the influence of Northern culture.

It is only possible that these are childish burials, so that they fit the size of the scales. Thus, the ancients had a rather strange conception compared to the following ages: Dividing weapons (spears, axes) for children when they died. Why this concept is still a question that has not been answered and not only in Go De but also in some graves with such burials.

The second tomb is a land tomb - speaking according to the language of archaeologists. The dead are buried straight, at the foot of the hill, the head turns north. The ears are worn with two jade stone earrings. White pierced tips are polished with a 4-piece type and there is an opening to the ear. This is a rare type of earrings. Right from that time, it was advised to be broken into 3 pieces, but the old people used drills to drill holes and then tied the copper wires, proving that the sense of saving of Vietnamese people has been deep since then, also proved Raw materials for making gem stones must be rare.

At the part of the chest of the dead, a square-ax ax was placed. Along the body of the body, there is also a bald ax, another square heel ax, 1 bowl, 1 pot and 1 ceramic vase. It is noteworthy that a cluster of 3 spears has a beautiful decorative pattern on the tongue. This is an adult grave, if it is based on the length of the distribution depending on the funeral. However, it is difficult to predict whether men or women, because based on the statues of people on the daggers of the same time dug the same time, both men and women wear earrings and are proficient in the use of all kinds of dance Air like spear, battle ax.

The discovery of 2 burial sites in Go De showed that the burial of the dead of the ancient Vietnamese was quite rich. By comparing the kind of artifacts - especially pottery - it is possible to predict that these two tombs date back to about 2,300 years, in accordance with the time of the Hùng kings that the history of the books refers to. There was also a place called Gia Ninh which, according to the legend and the legend, Gia Ninh was the place of the Hung Kings.

Along with Lang Ca monument, Go De relic has become the most important archaeological site in the process of finding Vietnamese people.

Dr. Trinh Sinh