许由城址Xuyou City Site

城址，平面呈长方形，东西长约400米，南北宽约300米，城墙多已平毁，现存东北部一段，残长近100米，宽10米，高3-4米，黄土夯筑，城内文化堆积厚约0.80米；曾出土楚国"郢爰""陈爰"金币；采集有东周时期夹砂灰陶绳纹鬲口沿、鬲足、罐口沿、铜虎符，汉代泥质灰陶罐口沿、"千秋万岁"瓦当、五铢铜钱等；《中国古今地名大词典》载"许田，在山东临沂县西北五十五里……"；见《文物》1985年第12期。探沂镇许由城村东北.

A city site; rectangular in plan, about 400 m east-west and 300 m north-south; most of the wall has been leveled, with one stretch surviving in the northeast, about 100 m long, 10 m wide, and 3-4 m high, built of rammed yellow earth; cultural deposits within the city are about 0.80 m thick. Chu gold money inscribed "Ying Yuan" and "Chen Yuan" has been found here; other finds include Eastern Zhou sand-tempered gray-pottery cord-marked li-tripod rims, li-tripod legs, and jar rims, a bronze tiger tally, and Han-dynasty clay-paste gray-pottery jar rims, tile-ends inscribed "Qianqiu Wansui" (a thousand autumns, ten thousand years), and Wuzhu bronze coins. The Comprehensive Dictionary of Chinese Place Names, Past and Present records: "Xutian, fifty-five li northwest of Linyi County, Shandong ..."; see Cultural Relics (Wenwu), 1985 no. 12. Located northeast of Xuyoucheng Village, Tanyi Town.