Heritage record
Shahrak/Pogunsh
BalochistanSettlementProtected
The village of Pogunsh is located 33 km east of Turbat and 1.5-2 km before Shahrak center. The ancient sites No.5 is beneath the modern village of Pogunsh. Shards have been found everywhere in the village but mainly around the mosque where it is possible to observe alignments of stone walls on the surface of the ground. Another area of shards collecting is located on the top of the hill over-looking the village from the north (Shahrak/Pogunsh-hill: site 15).
- Record ID
- 8698
- Province / territory
- Balochistan
- District
- Turbat
- Typology
- Archaeological Site
- Subtype
- Settlement
- Period
- Proto Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 26.03162, 63.30667 — 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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