Heritage record
Mora Banda Palai Painted Rock Shelter
Khyber PakhtunkhwaRock ShelterProtected
A Rock shelter site, internally marked with thirteen painted images of horses, men and dogs and some unidentified animals in red colour. It was probably a hunting scene, most of the figures are in a bad state of preservation. Several small and large cup marks were also observed near the shelter. The shelter is about 2.5 m deep, 1.03 m high and 6m wide internally.
- Record ID
- 3389
- Province / territory
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- District
- Malakand
- Typology
- Archaeological Site
- Subtype
- Rock Shelter
- Period
- Proto Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 34.52067, 72.08316 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Naz, Fozia, Badsha Sardar. (2020). Preliminary Report on the Recent Archaeological Survey of District Malakand, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan (2016-17). Pakistan Journal of Society, Education and Language, Vol VII (1).
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