When the potsherd was first discovered, as it was not recognized at the point of excavation, but only two or three months later during cleaning, some people suspected that a shard of a different date had become mixed in, or that it was a hoax by one of the workers.
陶片發掘之初，有人曾認為這隻陶片並非在挖掘現場發現，而是事隔兩三個月，在清理時發現的，因而懷疑是其他時期陶片的混入，或是工作人員的戲作。