Little Fangpan Fortress

 ruins, fortification, historical building

Pass the small square plate, also known as the city, was built in BC 111 years. For the Silk Road leading to the throat of the North West strategic pass, located 90 kilometers northwest of Dunhuang City in the Gobi Desert. Guan city square yellow base on the 10 meters high, the width of three meters wide and 5 m in well-preserved city wall, 24 meters from east to west, north and south 26.4 meters wide, covering an area of 633 square meters, northwest of the open one. About 100 meters north of the city for Kamal lake, saline lake for the light to have large areas of reed. Small castle stand in the desolation of the Gobi Desert, at the foot of Lake Hata Shule the year 2000 to connect the old course of the surface of the delivery of food the soldiers crowded the ship, from the Gobi desert monks hard business from here to the customs inspection, Even if the Central Plains and then into the land of the.
In 1907, archaeologists and adventurers who were smuggling and customs Stein in the northern city not far from the ruins a lot of digging to the Han Dynasty, from simple to determine the contents of a small side plate Pass the location of the city. According to historical records the location of Pass in the vicinity should also be on, but the city only a small side plate as the Han Dynasty more than 600 square meters west of the Customs and Excise Department is too small. Therefore, the specific location of the current Pass can not be sure that the current well-preserved site of a small side plate is tentatively scheduled for City Pass. National key units to be protected.