Castle :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Castle 10 — 13 cc․

NKR / Kashunik / Dzor

Location

The fortress walls are still discernibly visible on top of a bare rocky mountain in the eastern side of the village.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 183.

Description
10 — 13 cc․

The fortress wall, built of coarse stone and mortar, and fortified every other ten meters by double semicircular towers, extends along the southern slope of the mount. The maximum height in the sections preserved is 6-7 m. A little higher inside the wall there are the remains of other structures. Traces of separate structures are visible on top the mountain too. As soon as the mount is mostly strengthened by the vertical wall of natural rocks, stone walls were erected only in the parts, which were considered unsafe and easy of access. The building peculiarities of the fortress walls in the sections preserved, are characteristic of the X-XIII cent. As soon as Stephanos Orbelian mentioned only two fortresses in this part of the district: Pahu and Andokaberd, probably, this might be one of them.