KHULM - MAZAR-e SHARIF road 2 (Cave of the)

(ولسوالی خولم - AF)
36.783300,67.533300

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A second obvious cave entrance (or only a rock shelter?) reports COON (1957a: 234) from the right (southern) side of the road from Mazar-i- Sharif to Khulm (also Kholm, alias Tash Qurghan AIMS 2002, Tachqourghan LINDBERG 1949, 1961a; Tashkurghan COON 1957a: 230; Tâsh- Kourghan = Tour-de- Pierre FOUCHER 1924: 158).

Documents

Bibliography 06/01/2018

Coon, Carlton Stevens 1957a, 1957b.

History

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 1954.03.27: Dr. Carlton Stevens COON (1957a, 1957b) and Mrs. (=Elizabeth 'Lisa' K. Ralph), Henry 'Hank' W. Coulter jr. (geologist) and Mohammed Nader Saweri Khan (inspector of the Antiquities Department of the Ministry of Education, Kabul) pass by. Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Caves nearby

Distance (km)	Name	Length (m)	Depth (m)
4.7	KHULM - MAZAR-e SHARIF road 1 (Cave on the)
21.4	HAIBAK - KHOLM CAVES
30.3	SAYYAD (Caves at)
179.3	Boj-Bulok	14270	1415
215.8	HAZARSUM, Takhar
218.3	Darra-i Kur
218.3	HAZAR GUSFAND (Ghar i)
228.9	CASEM (Grotte di)
272.3	FEYZABAD (Cave at)