Heritage record
Kern Wooden Graves
Azad Jammu and KashmirTombProtected
The site is situated at the distance of about 12 km in the north-west of Neelum village. The place is at the distance of 38 km to the east of Tehsil Sharda. This is a huge mound occupied by ancient graves. Some of these graves have engraved stone slabs. The fragments of pottery can be seen on the surface of mound. There are a large number of trees covering the mound. Some of the graves have wooden cenotaphs with engraved works in floral and geometric designs. These include the lotus and oil lamps designs. There are four wooden pillars on each side of a grave holding a triangular roof.
- Record ID
- 6722
- Province / territory
- Azad Jammu and Kashmir
- District
- Neelum
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Tomb
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 34.66316, 73.95968 — 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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