Mehr Padin Castle

🕰️When was it built?

The exact date the castle was built is not known, and no particular year can be given. The complex was used until fairly recent times to store crops, livestock and people's belongings. It was added to the National Heritage List in 2002 as number 6143.

🏛️What was it built for?

The castle was mainly a temporary refuge for the village and was not built for everyone to live in permanently. When attacks came, villagers moved in with their valuables. Inside there were living spaces, storerooms, stables and passages between the rooms.

👀What you will see

• Two walls of mud brick and clay enclose the inner spaces, and the tops of the walls are crenellated.
• Nine round towers with firing slots allowed defence on every side, and a moat ran around the castle.
• The south entrance has a double wooden door studded with metal nails, under a pointed arch with geometric patterns.
• The shahneshin sits above the entrance, one of the higher parts overlooking the inside.
• Narrow mud-brick stairs linked the ground floor, where the animals were kept, to the rooms above.

💡Something interesting

Each household had its own room for storing crops and food, and the spaces did not all belong to one ruler. This division shows how one complex served both to defend the village and to keep its people's property safe.

🎒Good to know before you go