Site Name: Faridabad (Ashoka Enclave, Sector 35)
Date: ca. 1600-1699 CE
Subject: General view


A Mughal-period distance marker located Ashoka
Enclave, Sector 35 in Faridabad district of Haryana. Constructed in the
seventeenth century, the octagonal tower is built of lakhori bricks bonded with
lime mortar. The monument is protected by the Archaeological Survey of India (Chandigarh
Circle) and remains well maintained, despite minor surface blackening and loss
of plaster at the base.