Thracian Sanctuary in the Mountains

Next day, Saturday, we drove on from our beach campsite near Primorsko up into the mountains, to the border crossing into Turkey at Malko Tarnovo...stopping en route to see another Thracian sanctuary. The Thracians, don't you know, were close by the Dacians, in Romania, roughly contemporaneous with the Celts in the north and west, all conquered and assimilated by the Romans.


Mountain road target practice, just like

in Montana























The sanctuary is supposed to be a hill-side stone circle,

oriented to the summer solstice sunrise, with cup-marks

and other features; here, a "sacrificial basin"

This mushroom-shaped rock supposedly has cup-marks

and other features

Another basin? It was all heavily grown-over, conglomerate

rock; takes a more practiced interpretive eye than I have

 

So we drove on, bumpy, twisting roads, toward Turkey,

encountering three different Bulgarian road-block check-

points, all amused to see Americanskis