In December 1996-January 1997, three Eastern Han tombs at Ma'anling in Guigang City were excavated by the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Archaeological Team. Tomb M1 is a wooden-chambered rectangular earth shaft, M2 has a similar pit but no chamber, M3 is paved with bricks on the bottom, and each of them has a slanting tomb-passage. Among the funeral objects pottery vessels come first in number, bronzes next, and then some irons, silver articles and other artifacts. The pottery belongs mainly to the ding tripod, jar, pot, vase, gui food container, lian toilet box, bowl, hill incense burner, lamp, and house, well, granary and kitchen range molds; and the bronzes, to the bowl, dish, mirror and belt hook.
