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Zone code: IND-LAD-BZZ-Zo01
Bazgo Zampa
Si rgé giog thang
Downstream of the last crops in the village. Engraved rocks start at the Basgo bridge.
In 2007 a person from the village told us that in the past people from Kargil came to look for gold on the plateau.

bridge, other, trail
bank, river, valley
Comments on the environment: Right bank of the Indus. Before the flooding there was a modern bridge from Basgo, an ancient path, various developments and structures on the plateau including a hemicycle wall (which crossed the site from northwest to southeast), caves (old mines). From Basgo, going up the Palzampiu tokpo, one arrives at Hundar (Shyok valley) via the Nia pass (5400m).

scattered
scarce

open air
petroglyph
granite
boulder

historic, pre-historic

Visits: Martin, Vernier (2004): systematic
destroyed
Comments on the condition: The site is submerged by water from the Alchi dam, the construction of which was completed in 2009.

Statistics of the zone

item #
rocks 22
surfaces 22
motifs 56
scenes 6

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Rocks

Motif statistics

    Category and identification
  • anthropomorph: 5
  • architecture: 0
  • artefact: 0
  • indeterminate: 11
  • inscription: 2
  • other: 0
  • plant: 0
  • sign: 2
  • zoomorph: 36
    Scene description
  • battle: 0
  • ceremonial: 0
  • confrontation: 0
  • domestication: 1
  • duel: 0
  • hunt: 0
  • image and text: 0
  • inter-species group: 1
  • intra-species group: 0
  • mating: 0
  • none: 0
  • other: 1
  • pair: 2
  • predation: 1
  • religious: 0
    Patina
  • fresh: 1
  • clear: 1
  • medium: 3
  • dark: 39
  • very dark: 11
  • unknown: 1
    Production technique
  • abraded: 0
  • combination: 0
  • hammered: 55
  • incised: 0
  • painted: 0
  • pecked: 0
  • unknown: 1
    Period
  • contemporary: 1
  • historic: 1
  • pre-historic: 4
  • unknown: 50
    Direction
  • front view: 1
  • left: 3
  • right: 1
  • reading sense: 11
  • aerial: 1
  • none: 39
  • unknown: 0
    Drawing
  • contour: 3
  • silhouette: 52
  • combination: 0
  • unknown: 1
    Style
  • rectilinear: 13
  • curvilinear: 2
  • parallel: 1
  • rectoparallel: 0
  • rectangular: 0
  • rectotriangular: 4
  • triangular: 2
  • bitriangular: 2
  • Eurasian animal style: 0
  • other: 1
  • non specific: 31