Topchika Cave

The Topchika cave is located on the land of the village of Dobrostan, Sushitsa district, Assenovgrad municipality. The cave is damp, multistage and branched, and spreads on an area of 2 hectares. It was declared a natural phenomenon in 1970. He cave is unique for its rock engravings of animals – a horse, a deer, and a goat dated to the ages of the primordial man. The explorers also found a molar of a cave bear, a dogtooth, a lot of cervical and tail vertebrae from spinal column, jaws of ruminants. The primitive men have inhabited the cave during the Late Iron Age. Pottery, mainly fragments of small and medium-sized terracotta, were also found here.