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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Krivi Kamik Alternative Name: Krivi Kamuk; Krivi Kamik; Krivi Kamak (The Curved Stone)Country: Bulgaria Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Pernik Nearest Village: Lyulin
Latitude: 42.664444N Longitude: 23.078056E
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5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Solar shrine and fortress. Krivi Kamik which means "the stone with the curves" as named by local people is a peak in the Lyulin Mountain, Bulgaria which contains a solar shrine and fortress. It is about 1.5 km north-northeast of the village of Lyulin, Pernik District and 12 km south-west from Bankya, Sofia District. The peak's altitude is 1127m. All the villages in the region of Pernik and the town itself are visible form the top.
In the published "Museum of Pernik 2009 Overview" is reported that topographic and visual comparison of the elevation of sanctuaries in the region of Pernik have been conducted and Krivi Kamik shrine in the area of Lyulin Mountain was included in the study by archaeologists Dr. Philip Mikhailov and Aneta Bakamska.
In early 2011, in a paper on the program of the Section "Thracian archeology" of Bulgarian National Museum of Archeology is noted that the solar shrine had been an object of rescue excavations carried out by Mihaylov and Bakamska and findings are attributed to the Early Iron Age and Roman period.
In August 2013, a message appears on the top treasure hunters invasion that was carried out in the spring of that year. Archaeological evidence suggests that the scale of the peak curves carved stone has a hole which is supposed to have been a grave where a body was laid in the pre historic times. The scale of the eponymous peak curves stone was consecrated to the sun, around which are found fragments of pottery used for rituals and ceremonies dating from the early Iron Age and Roman period.
Undoubtedly solar shrine is associated with prehistoric Thracian settlement of the western part of Lyulin Mountain, which was located on the saddle between the peaks and curves Chuchul Kamik.On grassy terrain on the plateau between the two fortress (built in Halshtat Era) archaeological materials of prehistoric settlement had been found. Many burdens and ceramics with different manufacturing techniques had been excavated. Today, on the terrain of the fortress still there are fragments of coarse, thick pottery and ceramics are scattered. Prehistoric Thracian settlement was built near the two fortresses of Chuchuly Peak and Krivi Kamik. It is synchronous with both fortifications and undoubtedly closely related.
Natural protected land covered by rock, known as Chuchul Kamik or Gola Glava in an area of covering about 0.3 square meters a small fortress had been built in Hallshtat period. The fortified wall had emerged as a shaft above the ground. It had a width of about 1.50 m. Bulgarian archaeologist Ivan Velikov, studied the fortress in the beginning of 20th century reported that the wall was built of small stones without mortar. The small plateau bounded by the wall, fragments of pottery and some pieces of La Tene period ceramics had been found. In Late Antiquity fortress was inhabited and still in military use. On the Northwest side remains of cinder and slag had been found. These findings revealed that in Antiquity the fortress became the processing spot of ores, carried over from the nearby mining areas.
The fortress built near Krivi Kamik peak was located about 2.2 km from the current Village of Divotino. Protected natural terrain with a strong strategic position in Halshtatskata era fortress was built, which encompassed an area of about 0.5 square meters Fortification wall, outlined today as shaft covers the southern slope of the hill. In the past over land were preserved parts of the walls, which were built of stone. Today, in the field fragments of the pre-Roman and Late Antiquity ceramics could be found. In the early years of Roman rule the fortress was abandoned.
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