Stasiunų Piliakalnis: A 2000-Year-Old Enigma in Lithuania

In the rural countryside of Lithuania, Stasiunų piliakalnis, a mysterious enclosed hillfort, lies hidden amongst the Wolynia forest. The enclosure, with a diameter of 42 meters by 26 meters and a height of 2 meters above the ground to the north, contains burnt bricks. A 4-meter-wide platform, 1.5 meters below the enclosure, has a 30-meter-long, 0.2-meter-high, 4-meter-wide roofed terrace surrounded and paved with paved and cobbled streets. This structure, built and abandoned between the first and second centuries BC, is a mystery that beckons exploration.

Stasiunų piliakalnis is enclosed in a separate enclosure, with a bank on the south side. The area of the protected cultural monument's territory is 13,000 square meters. The Lithuanian Cultural Heritage Preservation Commission declared Stasiunų piliakalnis a protected cultural monument – 1998-05-19, No. 612. Andra Simniškytė studied the ancient settlement within the large enclosure in 2001. The Institute of History claimed Stasiunų piliakalnis in 1972.

More information about Stasiunų piliakalnis can be found in Andra Simniškytė's article published in Archeologiniai tyrinėjimai Lietuvoje 2001 metais, 2002, p. 53–54. Stasiunų piliakalnis and settlement are listed in the Lithuanian Cultural Heritage Register, V, 1973, p.169 and 1993, p.65. (Note: Stasiunų piliakalnis and settlement are also listed in the Lithuanian Cultural Heritage Register, but the years are not provided in the source material.)

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