Fragment of a crude pottery Go board excavated during the 1990s from the site of the southern gate to the mausoleum of Emperor Jing Di; (reigned 156-141) and his consort at Yangling; near Xianyang in Shaanxi province. Date : Uncertain, as it is not associated with the main burial, but assumed to date to the Western Han period (206 B.C. - 25 A.D.).
Source : Wangdu Hanmu Bihua (Beijing, 1955)
Description : Stone Go board excavated in 1952 from the Han dynasty tomb M1 at Wangdu; in Hebei province.
Date : Late Eastern Han period (25-220).
Size : 69 cm.
Grid : 17, with the five primary star points marked.
Source : Survey of Chinese Ceramics (Taibei, 1991) vol.2 page 171
Description : White ceramic Go board found near Anyang 安陽 in Henan province.
Date : Early Sui dynasty (581-618).
Size : 10.2 cm.
Grid : 19, with the five primary star points marked.
Description : Model Go board excavated from the tomb of Ran Rencai; at Wanzhou district; in Chongqing.
Date : Tang dynasty (618-907) : 654.
Size : 11.0 cm.
Grid : 19, with the five primary star points marked.
Source : Xinjiang Chutu Wenwu; (Beijing, 1975) plate 189
Description : Wooden Go board excavated in 1973 from the tomb of Zhang Xiong; (died 633) and his wife (died 688) (M206) at Astana; in Xinjiang (see Wen Wu; 1975.7).
Date : Tang dynasty (618-907) : 688.
Size :
Grid : 19.
Source : Wen Wu; 2006.11 p.50
Description : Pottery model Go board excavated in 1994 from tomb M4 at Yueyang ; in Hunan province.
Date : Tang dynasty (618-907).
Size : 11.0 cm.
Grid : 14 !
Description : Brick Go board found in 2006 at the Bunhwangsa Temple in Gyeongju (the capital of the Silla kingdom) in Gyeongsangbuk-do province, South Korea. The board broke into three pieces on discovery, and one piece is missing.
Date : Unified Silla period (668-935).
Size : 42 cm.
Grid : 15.
Description : Crude stone Go board found in 2000 during the renovation of a house near the ruins of the Byams pa mi 'gyur gling palace, the reputed birthplace of King Songts; in Gampo (617?-649), at rGya ma in Maizhokunggar county in Tibet (see Guntram Hazod's The Royal Residence Pho Brang Byams Pa Mi 'Gyur Gling and the story of Srong bTsan sGam Po's Birth in rGya Ma in Tibet, past and present (proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000) (Leiden, 2002) pages 27-47). The stone was resting against the wall of the house, but is presumed to come from the palace, as that was the source of building material for the house.
Date : Uncertain, but Guntram Hazod suggests that "the stone slab might have come from a very old stratum or even the foundation period" (i.e. the period of King Songts; in Gampo).
Size : 56 cm. (including a 10 cm wide hollow at each end to hold the Go stones).
Grid : 17.
Description : Fragment of a pottery Go board, and a set of black and white ceramic Go stones in black and white ceramic bowls, These are in a private collection, and their source is unknown, although it can be reasonably surmised that they could only have come from a robbed tomb. A number of similar ceramic Go stones were discovered between 1983 and 1986 at the site of the Lingwu kiln; in Ningxia province.
Date : Supposedly Western Xia (1038-1227), but with no archaeological context this cannot be verified.
Grid : Uncertain, probably; 19 from the number of stones.
Stones : Reportedly 200 black stones and 200 white stones, but not certain whether this is an approximate or an exact count.
Description : Go stones excavated from the site of the first Jin dynasty capital (Shangjing 上京) at Acheng in Heilongjiang province.
Date : Jin dynasty (1115-1234).
Stones : 18 black and 14 white Go stones of various sizes.
Description : White Go stones discovered in 2009 in an ancient well at a construction site in Chengdu city in Sichuan province.
Date : Northern Song (960-1127).
Stones : About 30 white stones.
