Heritage record
Sharda Cup Marks II
Azad Jammu and KashmirRock ArtProtected
The site is located on the left bank of Madhumati stream, and against Sharda Temple. The cup marks on boulder are fourteen in number and executed in four rows; two on each side, and ten of them are depicted in two rows between them; and looking like a cross sign. The boulder is situated near the Megalith grave, in the ancient graveyard of village Sharda. The site is tentatively dated from 4th-2nd Millennium BCE.
- Record ID
- 6614
- Province / territory
- Azad Jammu and Kashmir
- District
- Neelum
- Typology
- Archaeological Site
- Subtype
- Rock Art
- Period
- Pre Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 34.79276, 74.19337 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Khan, Ashraf, Ghani-ur-Rahman. (2020). Threat to the Cultural Heritage of Pakistan Survey and Documentation of Tangible and Intangible Heritage of Azad Jammu & Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan. Taxila Institute of Asian Civilizations, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 2020.
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