Heritage record
Bacha-Kot
Khyber PakhtunkhwaRock ShelterProtected
This is a rock shelter located on a terrace towards east-south-east of Saffar Kandao. This rock shelter is visibly carved out of a large boulder with several grooves or niche-like formations. In one of such grooves on the north can be seen two carved human figures turning their faces to the right. To the left, there is a tip of an arrow which certainly belongs to the figure of an archer which is no longer visible due to mutilation. To the right can be dimly seen a rider on the horseback, with his feet on the stirrups.
- Record ID
- 9832
- Province / territory
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- District
- Swat
- Typology
- Archaeological Site
- Subtype
- Rock Shelter
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 34.58004, 72.15971 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Olivieri, Luca. M. (2015). Talking Stones: Painted Rock Shelters of the Swat Valley. Pakistan-Italian Debt Swap Program, IsMEO, DOAM, KPK.
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