皂市遗址发现于1960年,同年11月,湖南省博物馆作了小面积试掘。1977年底至1978年初进行第一次正式发掘,开探方十七个,发掘面积300平方米,工作人员有熊传新、傅举有等。1981年冬,省博物馆结合省第一期考古培训班学员及湘潭大学80级学生实习,又主持了第二次发掘,开探方四十六个,发掘面积1100平方米,参加发掘工作的除培训班学员和湘潭大学师生外,有何介钧、袁家荣、金则恭、胡树旗、胡德兴等。通过两次正式发掘,知悉皂市遗址有三个时期的文化堆积:早期新石器遗存,商代青铜文化遗存及东周楚文化遗存。皂市遗址早 Zaoshi site was found in 1960, the same year in November, Hunan Provincial Museum made a small area test excavation. The end of 1977 to the beginning of 1978 the first official excavation, open exploration side of seventeen, an area of ​​300 square meters to explore, the staff Xiong Chuanxin, Fu and others. The winter of 1981, the provincial museum combined with the first provincial archeology training class students and Xiangtan University 80 students internships, and presided over the second excavation, open exploration side 46, excavation area 1100 square meters, to participate in the excavation Training students and teachers and students of Xiangtan University, there Jie Jun, Yuan Jia Rong, Jin Gong Gong, Hu Shuqi, Hood Dexing and so on. Through two formal excavations, it is known that there are three periods of cultural accumulation in Zaoshi sites: the early Neolithic relics, the bronze cultural relics from the Shang Dynasty and the Chu cultural relics from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. Soap City site early