Alcoholic stone
is a megalithic sanctuary located 2 km from the town of Kostandovo, Pazardzhik region, Bulgaria. For several seasons, between 1976 and 1985, the archeological site was explored as part of the Besika Expedition. The study confirms the cult character of the site - the place served as a sanctuary of the goddess Hera, and in the immediate vicinity of it was discovered a Thracian settlement and a fortification.
The study of the Megalithic Sanctuary Alkov Kamak is part of a kind of scientific campaign that began in the 1970s, when the first stage of the study of Thracian cult centers in the Western Rhodopes began. During this period, information was gradually accumulated about a large number of places of worship in the mountains. The main contribution to the development of the Thracian archeology of the cult during this period was made by the Polish archaeologist Prof. Mechislav Domaradski. In the late 70's, as the scientific leader of the expedition along the rivers Struma and Mesta, he formulated and identified the problems of the so-called. "Sacred places" in ancient Thrace. Prof. Domaradski takes part in all important for Thracian cult archeology research in this region. In the period from 1974 to 1979, a total of 186 archeological sites from different epochs were registered on the ridge of the western and southern slopes of the Dabrash ridge within the framework of the National Complex Research Program "Rhodopes". The information gathered during the field visits of "Expedition Places" is supplemented by drilling studies of selected sites. Such are those in the villages of Dolen, Kovachevitsa, Satovcha, Tsrancha, Babyak, Gostun, Gospodintsi, Osina and Fargovo.
"The megalithic sanctuary Alkov Kamak" is one of the significant rock-cult complexes on the ethnic territory of the Bessi tribe, but it has not been fully studied.
