Felsbilder und Inschriften am Karakorum-Highway

and snowfall in winter. The roof also covered a verandah with an additional fire-
place, besides seats and strings beds for the family. Similar upstands are used on
some towers.
Dwg. 5a-b: Plan of the reconstructed mosque. The pillars of the former mosque were
reused.
Dwg. 6: Most of the house plans presented by Andrews in Sazin show the more
elaborate organisation imported from Tangir. These are the reception rooms of the
richest men in the village. He was allowed access to only one of the more traditional
houses.
Dwg. 7: Plan of the mill (elevation and section) with detail and hopper.
Dwg. 8a-b: Ground plan of the Old Fort (Thatuwi /cot) on the ridge northwest of the
fields and meadows of the present community at Sazin. The population moved from
Thatuwi /cot to the present Sazin /cot after conversion to Islam. The roofs must have
been differently organised; there are almost no rectangular rooms. Such hilltop
settlements were frequent in Tangir: Peter Snoy climbed up to one of them. No
running water is available here; it is claimed that there was once a wooden aqueduct,
though no traces of it remain.

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