The Shimao Site in Shenmu County, Shaanxi

Abstract

Abstract In Shimao Site, stone city walls, city gates, watchtowers, corner towers and auxiliary structures similar to “bastions” are found. The city site comprised the “Imperial City Terrace”, the inner city and the outer city, the general area of which would be larger than 400ha. The eastern gate of the outer city consisting of the inner and outer barbicans, stone-lined rammed earth gate body, the guardhouses, and so on had huge scale, complex structure and advanced construction technique, and yielded jade spades, jade