Dholbaha lies about 30 kilometres north-west of Hoshiarpur, near the Dholbaha dam built in 1987.
The site carries continuous evidence from the Lower Palaeolithic to the thirteenth century: crude stone tools and polished pebbles more than ten thousand years old, medieval sandstone sculptures of Vishnu, Shiva, Durga and Jain Tirthankaras, temple fragments, and Brahmi and Devanagari inscriptions. Gurjara-Pratihara and Paramara material spans the eighth to thirteenth centuries.
The finds are held at the Sadhu Ashram Hoshiarpur Archaeological Museum. INTACH has noted: There are no signages, no visitor amenities, no museums or interpretation centres. The infrastructure is almost non-existent.
The medieval sculpture from Dholbaha is the largest body of stone carving from Punjab of that period: temple figures in a Pahari-influenced style, recovered from the dam area and from mounds in the surrounding villages, and dating principally to the tenth and eleventh centuries.
It is the physical evidence for a settled temple culture in the Kandi belt before the Ghaznavid period, in a region that has almost no standing pre-Islamic architecture at all. The stone was reused: fragments turn up in village walls and in field bunds around the site.
The Sadhu Ashram museum at Hoshiarpur holds much of it. The catalogue is partial, the site itself is unprotected in most of its extent, and the reservoir covers part of it.