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Thursday, August 30, 1973

HISTORICAL POT ON DISPLAY

A rare Neolithic pot recently unearthed from Lamma Island will

be put on display at the City Museum and Art Gallery for two months starting

from Saturday (September 1).

The well-preserved pot, measuring 25 cm in height and 30 cm in

diameter, is round-shaped and is covered with lozenge and net patterns.

It was accidentally discovered by workers in August last year

while digging the foundation for a new house at Sha Po Tsuen, Yung Shu Wan.

The contractor later presented it to the City Museum and Art

Gallery and a salvage excavation was immediately carried out at Sha Po

Tsuen where some more small pieces of Neolithic pottery were unearthed.

A spokesman for the City Museum and Art Gallery said that pottery

of this type was usually found along the south-east coast of China, and

they had been in use over a long period from the Chou Dynasty to early Han.

Samples of the pottery unearthed and photographs showing the

salvage excavation in progress will be put on display together with the

pot to form a museum feature item.

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