Heritage record
Baghardo Rock Carvings
Gilgit-BaltistanRock ArtProtected
Baghardo village is situated on the right bank of river Indus above the Baghardo Das opposite Kachura. The site is located north of the Government High School Baghardo on the terrace slope where large number of black boulders was lying. Once several boulders have cock carvings including beautiful stupa carvings in Tibetan style and ibexes. One picture of a snow leopard is shown looking for his prey. Another picture shows a horse riding with a bow and arrow in his hands. One of the stupa carvings has a trisula on its top. This site has multiple periods from 6th Century BCE to 9th-10th Century CE.
- Record ID
- 7814
- 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
- 35.44579, 75.47320 — 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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