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Castle 4 — 7 cc․

NKR / Jabrayil / Tumas

Description
4 — 7 cc․

Below, on a small terrace, at a distance of 1.2 km northeast of Tumas, on the altitude of 1150 m, there are the remains of a fortress wall built of unprocessed stone without mortar. The wall was erected only in the northern and northwestern sides of the fortress. Impassable natural rocks protected other parts. The wall is arch-shaped, 25 m long, 2 m wide and the height of the preserved parts reaches 1.0 -1.5 m. There are no traces of any structures inside the fortress. Remains of houses situated beneath the fortress, in the southern and southeastern sides of the foothill are still visible. Taking into consideration the building technique of the fortress walls masonry (large unprocessed or semi-processed stones without mortar), it seems, the fortress should have been built in the early medieval period, or, to be more precise - in the IV-VII centuries AD.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 226.

Type Photo
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative

The fortress wall from inside

Type Photo
Direction From the west
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative

Type Photo
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative

The fortress wall from outside