Heritage record
Thorgu Bala
Gilgit-BaltistanRock ArtProtected
The site is situated between Skardu-Khaplu Road and the River Indus. At this site we found 456 carvings on 22 stone. Among the carvings, ibexes, human figures, long Brahmi Inscription, wheel, monuments, tree, stupa, bell shape object, etc., are carved. The big boulder in the center of the terrace bearing more than 100 carvings has some new carvings made by the inhabitant which over lapping the earlier ones. This site is associated with multiple periods.
- Record ID
- 7713
- Province / territory
- Gilgit-Baltistan
- District
- Skardu
- Typology
- Archaeological Site
- Subtype
- Rock Art
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 35.30742, 75.73895 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Hauptmann, H.. (Miscellaneous). Pak-German Archaeological Mission to the Northern Areas of the Heidelberg Academy for the Humanities and Sciences. Miscellaneous.
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