Прав камин

Прав камин, also called Прав каминь, is a megalithic sanctuary about 500 m north of the rock-cult complex Градище near the village of Долно Дряново in Garmen municipality, Bulgaria. It is easily reached about 250 meters left of the road Гърмен - Сатовча, shortly after Долно Дряново, and stands immediately above the Градище historical and landscape park.

The sanctuary consists of monolithic stone blocks arranged in three distinct groups. Natural blocks on the left and right form a dromos leading to a P-shaped group with an opening of 0.60 m. Beyond it lies a stone platform with a natural layer of 0.30 m humus. On the left is an imposing megalith about 3.80 m high, marked by visible traces of burning and shaped to resemble a human head, with eyes, mouth, a natural nose, a cap-like form, and a pedestal. Scarcity of lichen on worked areas supports the presence of deliberate secondary shaping.

The site was discovered in 2005 by Тодор Узунов of „САТО“. In 2007 he made drawings and reported the location to the Inspectorate under the Ministry of Culture, keeping it publicly undisclosed for several years because it could not be protected from treasure hunters. Press reports were followed by several further incursions. Uзунов regarded the monument as an integral part of the complex „Градище“ and its highest point; a modern road separates them, although both stand on the same rocky ridge.

Ceramic finds found in the area led Узунов to place the beginning of the ridge’s ritual use in the Chalcolithic and its later structural additions in the Early Iron Age. Offerings pits in the P-shaped group and a quern exposed after treasure-hunter damage indicate that rites were performed on the site. In the wider Bulgarian tradition, rocks were cut, carved, and used as sanctuaries for thousands of years, and the Thracians reused many such places.

Прав камин is a megalith (abstract root) in Dolno Dryanovo, Bulgaria. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the Bulgarian article "Прав камин", shown in the original language.