The artefacts include bricks, tiles, decoration edgings, animal statues and pottery. The most noteworthy objects are bricks of the Tran Dynasty (13th-14th Century) and the Mac Dynasty (16th Century).

The bricks were made of dark red and yellow terra-cotta which was mixed with various unknown substances and they have distinguished, sophisticated and unique patterns, said archaeologists from the Vietnam History Museum and the Ha Tay Provincial Department of Culture and Information.

The archaeologists also said that the newly-discovered pottery, which have diverse enamels and designs, prove the high development of this craft in the 16th-17th century.

The artefacts, discovered at the Tam Bao site in Dau Pagoda from late March to early August 2006, will help promote the value and significance of Dau Pagoda. It is a nationally-recognised cultural and historical site for the cultural and religious lives of the Vietnamese people in general and inhabitants in the Red River Delta in particular.