Heritage record
Matkanai I-VI
Khyber PakhtunkhwaSettlementProtected
The archaeological buildings are scattered on 6 different spurs of the hill mostly in ruined conditions. Matkanai-1 site contains different structures including 12 rooms and 2 watch towers. Matkanai-2 contains three rooms and one watch tower. Matkanai-3 contains houses one room and one watch tower apart from some scattered structures. The structures of Makanai-4 have been demolished, while Matkanai-5 also contains demolished structures with a watch tower still visible. Matkanai-6 contains 20 rooms, 2 watch tower and 6 bastions.
Photographs: Department of Archaeology & Museums national inventory record, displayed from the official source (doam.gov.pk). Not PWHI photography.
- Record ID
- 4015
- Province / territory
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- District
- Malakand
- Typology
- Archaeological Site
- Subtype
- Settlement
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 34.61628, 71.85389 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Khan, Ijaz. (2017). Exploring the Settlement Archaeology of the Hindu Shahi Dynasty (c. 822 CE to c. 1026 CE) in North-Western Pakistan. Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Leicester.
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