Heritage record
Chirchill Picket
Khyber PakhtunkhwaPicketProtected
A small picket on a hill top is famous as Sir Winston Chirchill. In 1895 When Chirchill was a lieutenant and was accompanied by Malakand Field Force spent a week in this picket when it was surrounded by a group of local tribesmen. This is burnt brick building laid in lime mortar. The top of this building is secured by high walls provided with loopholes/arrow loop or arrow slits for keeping an eye on enemies/intruders and to keep them away by firing bullets through these holes.
Photographs: Department of Archaeology & Museums national inventory record, displayed from the official source (doam.gov.pk). Not PWHI photography.
- Record ID
- 10333
- Province / territory
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- District
- Lower Dir
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Picket
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 34.56079, 71.89491 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Anonymous. (Miscellaneous). Miscellaneous. Miscellaneous.
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