Heritage record
Pidarak Oasis Fortress
BalochistanSettlementProtected
It is located on the slopes of a partly artificial mass, on which the medieval fortress overlooking the oasis has been built; the pottery (basket ware; ridged ware) indicated that the settlement of this oasis goes back at least to the protohistoric period.
- Record ID
- 8666
- Province / territory
- Balochistan
- District
- Turbat
- Typology
- Archaeological Site
- Subtype
- Settlement
- Period
- Proto Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 25.84583, 63.23750 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Besenval, Roland, and Paul Sanlaville. (1990). Cartography of Ancient Settlements in Central Southern Pakistani Makran: New Data. Mesopotamia, Vol. 25.
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