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Photographs in 2003 High Tibet Antiquities Expedition (HTAE)

Multiple courses of embedded slabs, funerary structure FS5. Cell C4 of funerary structure FS4. A small part of the main Recho (<i>re co</i>) Valley can be seen in the distance. The superficial double-course walls of cell C1, funerary structure FS4. The stacked double-course north wall of cell C2, funerary structure FS4. Funerary structure FS1 and funerary structure FS2 and other structural traces. Funerary structure FS1. The massive walls of funerary structure FS3. One of the cells of funerary structure FS4 made up of large stones.
Cliff dwelling residential structure RS2. Cliff dwelling residential structure RS3. Cliff dwelling residential structure RS3. Funerary structure FS2. Note that the upper portion of the structure, a more recent addition, is constructed differently. Funerary structure FS1. Note the stones stacked on top of the structure. The west side of funerary structure FS4. Note the small intact wall fragment. Long abandoned agricultural lands lie in the valley bottom. Funerary structure FS3. Note the two structures within the perimeter walls and how stones are concentrated on the southwest (extreme right) corner of the enclosure. Also note the disused agricultural lands in the valley bottom. Funerary structure FS3. The south interior structure is in the foreground and the heaped portion of the southwest corner of the enclosure is in the background.
Funerary structure FS2. Funerary structure FS1. Cliff dwelling residential structure RS3. A portion of the main ledge of the upper complex. A view of the main ledge of the upper complex. Below the site are the waters of Bangkhur Tso (<i>bang khur mtsho</i>). Minor remains in the upper complex. A wall constructed with smaller pieces of limestone in the upper complex.
The east sector of the lower complex. Ruined structures of the upper complex. The upper fortress complex. Tsomo Ngangla Ringmo (<i>mtsho mo ngang la ring mo</i>) is visible in the distance. The ruined fortress. The summit castle complex. Structural remains of the summit complex. Rubble on the summit. The formation supporting the castle ruins.

2003 High Tibet Antiquities Expedition (HTAE) in Topic


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