Site Name: Burj
Date: ca. 1600-1699 CE
Subject: General view


This Kos Minar is a Mughal-period octagonal
distance marker located along the Chabal–Rajataal Road at Burj village in Tarn
Taran district of Punjab, adjacent to the Old Grand Trunk Road amid
agricultural fields. Constructed in the seventeenth century, it is built of
lakhori bricks set in lime mortar. The monument is unprotected and survives in
good condition, with minor surface blackening and limited loss of plaster
visible.