The most common tool used by ancient grave robbers. How is the usage

Some readers may immediately associate the Luoyang shovel. In fact, the Luoyang shovel in the Republic of grave robbers in the use is not common, are a small circle of acquaintances to each other, mainly confined to Henan Luoyang around the grave robbers circle. In other places, especially in the hilly and mountainous areas where the geology is sticky and hard and there are more sand and stones, the Luoyang shovel was not used. Previously described in a variety of grave-robbing events, we should also be able to see the diversity of grave-robbing tools, grave robbers are generally what tools sharp with what, chisels, spades, spade, shovels, axes, picks, upsetting, arrowheads, cones, sickles, hoes, knives, bamboo sticks, bamboo baskets, wooden bars, thick hemp rope ----- these common human production, life-like tools, may become the tools of the grave robbers.

, the more characteristic grave robbing tools are three: one, iron brazier; two, Luoyang shovel; three: short handle hoe. These tools are to explore the underground secret tomb of the sharp weapon, can be said to be the Republic of grave robbers in the hands of the absolute weapon. Among them, the Luoyang shovel for the North (North) grave robbers invented; short-handled hoe is the South (South) grave robbers creativity. The simplest and most traditional grave exploration weapon - iron brazier.

The iron brazier is the simplest and most traditional Chinese grave robber. It also has the longest history as a grave robbing tool. Before the appearance of the Luoyang shovel, it was a great secret tool for grave robbers, widely used by Chinese grave robbers and not limited to geography, time and space. In the Republic of China, grave robbers, including those in the Luoyang area, used this tool when exploring underground tombs. I interviewed in Luoyang Mapo, a former tomb robber, confirmed such things.

The brazier, a Chinese folk chiseling holes in the eye of the ordinary tools, commonly used in engineering excavation, the current mountain drilling and cannon, will also use this kind of thing. In the past, when moving coffins and burials, this tool was also indispensable. Brazier in ancient times are iron, called iron brazier. To the Republic of China, more than iron hardness of steel (bar) made, and thus commonly known as "steel brazier".

The steel brazes used for grave robbing are different from the general steel brazes, which are longer and can penetrate deep into the soil layer. Luoyang area of the Republic of China grave robbers in the Mangshan "planing antiques" (grave robbing), can not find a suitable steel bar, then find the old coal stove through the fire road of the iron mortar and pestle, made of brazier, about l meters long, one end of the circle, easy to grip and force, one end of the sharp. This steel and modern archaeology with the use of "probe", have similar functions.

The use of the brazier was based on experience. One of the explorers who still uses the brazier told the author that a brazier can tell whether there is something underneath and what it is. When brazing down to the soil layer, you have to hold the brazier tightly and "see how it feels". If there is no change in the quality of the soil below, the force of the brazier and the speed of penetration will be smooth, and the feeling will be different if it hits the soil, brick, sand, stone, or iron. The brazier met resistance, then there must be something below; brazier went down very deep, very quickly, below is likely to be a tomb, or other hollow.

Some places, such as in Anyang also use a kind of "probe" to find graves, this probe is longer than the brazier thick, actually evolved from the brazier.

China's largest bronze so far found after mother wu square tripod, is in March 1939 by a named Wu Xizeng treasure diggers with a probe found. At that time, the probe drilled to more than 10 meters deep underground, the sense of touching a hard object, the probe will be brought up to see, found that the hard iron probe are rolled, Wu Xizeng immediately realized that it may be a kind of bronze metal, otherwise it is impossible to break the probe 。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。