Buried in Ančio's cold, foggy northwest corner, Gudelių piliakalnis stands, but not in a straight south-north direction as one might assume. Instead, it is oriented northeast-southwest, and its twelve to thirteen meter tall stone slabs violently cut into the landscape, creating a unique stone forest. The site is located six hundred meters from Rėzgalius or Petroškalnys, at the crossroads of Stulgiai - Karyznos, and marks the boundary between Šikšnius on the right and the crisp, windswept fields of the west on the left.
The site is hidden by a wall eighteen meters high and fourteen meters wide, with a five and a half meter wide and two meter high stone block found in the eastern part of the site. In the north-east corner of the site, a three meter high, fourteen meter wide and half a meter high stone block lies three meters below the site's surface. Archaeological studies of Gudelių piliakalnis were conducted in 1964 by Lietuvos istorijos institutas. The site dates back to the first to second millennium. Gudelių piliakalnis is just one of many mysterious sites hidden deep in ancient Lithuania.
Sources: Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons
Written by Nicolo Ciampini
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