NAWAN SHAHR (Cave at)

(Abbottābād District - PK)
34.243100,73.050000
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

What appears to represent a sacred but otherwise unspecified cave (temple cave) blocked with a red coloured infilling reported DUCLUZAUX (1993 Mss, 1994a: 26, 1994c: 39, 1995a: 11) and DUCLUZAUX & JUBERTHIE (2001: 1956) from below a certain Ilyasi mosque (note 1) erected above a spring of water (note 2) at a place called Nawan Sehr (or so) in an unrecognised spatial relation near (sic!) Abbottabad.SITUATION: There exists no Nawan Sehr (Ducluzaux, passim) in Pakistan (note 3) but Nawan Shahr (N34°14'35”: E073°03' nima.mil/geonames accessed 16.11.2003) or Nowshahra (AMS sheet NI43-05 Mardan, U502 series, 1958 edition) lies at a travelling distance of about 16 km or 18 km along the road from Abbottabad (note 4) approximately south-west towards Rawalpindi. The Geological map of Kohistan and adjoining regions (THAKUR 1992: 253 figure 6.21 after COWARD et al. 1986) shows near the bottom margin undifferentiated Precambrian sediments in the south-west of Abbottabad.What appears to represent a sacred but otherwise unspecified cave (temple cave) blocked with a red coloured infilling reported DUCLUZAUX (1993 Mss, 1994a: 26, 1994c: 39, 1995a: 11) and DUCLUZAUX & JUBERTHIE (2001: 1956) from below a certain Ilyasi mosque (note 1) erected above a spring of water (note 2) at a place called Nawan Sehr (or so) in an unrecognised spatial relation near (sic!) Abbottabad.SITUATION: There exists no Nawan Sehr (Ducluzaux, passim) in Pakistan (note 3) but Nawan Shahr (N34°14'35”: E073°03' nima.mil/geonames accessed 16.11.2003) or Nowshahra (AMS sheet NI43-05 Mardan, U502 series, 1958 edition) lies at a travelling distance of about 16 km or 18 km along the road from Abbottabad (note 4) approximately south-west towards Rawalpindi. The Geological map of Kohistan and adjoining regions (THAKUR 1992: 253 figure 6.21 after COWARD et al. 1986) shows near the bottom margin undifferentiated Precambrian sediments in the south-west of Abbottabad.

Documents

Bibliography 06/01/2018

Histoire

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 1993.08.01 - 1993.08.30: Bruno Ducluzaux (1993 Mss, 1994a: 26, 1994c: 39, 1995a: 10-11) and Gilles Rousson visited the cave. Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Cavités proche

Distance (km)NomLongueur (m)Profondeur (m)
22.1SAWABI, 1st (Cave near)
22.1SAWABI, 2nd (Cave at)
29.4HARIPUR, Tarbela (Cave at)
29.4HARIPUR, Margela (Caves at)
47.3POCHOLA (Cave near)
93.0Jamal Badar (Cave of)
93.7MOHZAR QALA
93.7SHEH OR SEH, Mohzar Qala (Cave of)
93.7ZHEI, Mohzar Qala (Cave of)