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Photographs in 2001 Upper Tibet Antiquities Expedition (UTAE)

The remains of a cobble wall. The east summit of the site. The west summit of the site. The west summit of the site. The summit structures. View of the site from the south. The summit palace seen from the monastic complex. The circular blockhouse located a short distance from the main complex.
The lower monastic complex and summit palace. The sprawling east side of the site. An adobe-block wall of the structure. The site’s highly eroded interior. The long, narrow structure from the west. Note the cobble revetment fragments. The Gyelwa Jampa (<i>rgyal ba byams pa</i>) statue at Manam Khar (<i>ma nam mkhar</i>) (East). The formation with scattered residential caves hosting Manam Khar (<i>ma nam mkhar</i>) (East) (located on the top). The earthen walls of the castle.
The castle site. The formation of Dawa Khartsé (<i>mda’ ba mkhar rtse</i>). Well-built structures perched on the southwest crag. Five of the six outcrops of the site are visible in this image. The formidable stone and adobe walls of the southwest crag. The northwest crag. A large hewn timber is visible below the revetment on the right side of the structure The ruins on and below the east crag. The castle structure.
The highly eroded earthen walls of the castle. An outer wall of the castle. Note the stonework revetment segments at the base of the structure. An interior portion of the castle. The single edifice of the site. The ridge-top structures. Composite stone and rammed-earth walls. The interior of the castle. Rammed-earth and stone walls of the castle. Note the regularly-spaced orifices in the earthen walls, which were used to secure the shuttering pins during construction.

2001 Upper Tibet Antiquities Expedition (UTAE) in Topic


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