Heritage record
Gunyar Gumbatoona-I
Khyber PakhtunkhwaStupa & MonasteryProtected
A Buddhist complex, according to locals, there were seven stupas earlier, of which four were destroyed by illegal diggers. The remaining three stupas are also in a bad state of preservation. One of these stupas is the largest, about 12 m high, and build of stone masonry on square base, round drum and hemispherical dome. Small niches probably for oil lamps still survive on the walls of the stupa. Treasure hunters have devastated the base and drum. The surrounding area of the stupas is converted into agricultural fields by the owners of the site.
Photographs: Department of Archaeology & Museums national inventory record, displayed from the official source (doam.gov.pk). Not PWHI photography.
- Record ID
- 3413
- Province / territory
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- District
- Malakand
- Typology
- Archaeological Site
- Subtype
- Stupa & Monastery
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 34.60586, 72.06916 — 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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