 Thracian Dolmen
In Bulgarian: Тракийски долмен
Category: Archaeological site
Location: Jelezino
The dolmen near the village of Jelezino is a megalithic burial facility dating from the end of II millennium BC. The dolmen is rectangular, single-chamber, without antechamber and dromos. The burial chamber has an east - west orientation.
The facility is built of large roughly shaped, vertical gneiss slabs, carved in a prepared ditches. Well preserved are the northern side-slab and the western upper slate, while the southern side is dilapidated, and the eastern and the roof are missing.
The dolmen near Jelezino was used actively throughout the I millennium BC, and later, during the Ottoman rule was utilized as a shrine. The archaeological research of various objects found ceramic fragments of Bronze, Iron Age and Middle Ages - iron tools, jewelry and coins from various periods XIII - XVIII century, which are stored in the Historical Museum of Haskovo.
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village Jelezino
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