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Ferryhill Summer Club 2002
"The Year of the Child"
5th-12th August 2002 
9.15-12.15 pm 
in the Church Halls

Terracotta Army

In 1974 a group of peasants digging a well, made what was to become the greatest archaeological find of the 20th century when they unearthed fragments of a life sized Terracotta Warrior. Excavation of the vault revealed thousands of warriors and their horses, an entire army designed follows its emperor into eternity.

The site is located 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) east of the Qin Mausoleum. The emperor's terracotta army was found in three underground timber lined vaults. Pit 1 contained chariots and ranks of six thousand soldiers. Pit 2 held fourteen hundred figures of cavalrymen, horses and infantrymen, along with ninety wooden chariots. Pit 3 contained about seventy figures. Excavating them has been a massive undertaking. To date, more than a thousand warriors have been reassembled.

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