Bikūnų piliakalnis

Bikūnų piliakalnis

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A protected hill fort site featuring a settlement and smooth ceramics from the first millennium BC.

Bikūnų piliakalnis is a hill fort located in the Sudeikiai eldership, south of Bikūnai. The site's first hill fort is situated on a separate hill 2.4 km south of the second hill fort. The courtyard is oval and elongated toward the south, measuring 50 by 22 meters, with slopes reaching heights of 10-12 meters.

In the slopes, both broken and smooth ceramics have been found. The hill fort is heavily overgrown with bushes, and three birches grow in the center of the courtyard. The site covers an area of 1.5 hectares and is protected by the Lithuanian National Museum.

In the eastern part of the hill fort, there is a settlement of papėdės on a 0.3-hectare plot. The site is dated to the first millennium BC to the beginning of the first millennium AD. It is reachable from the gravel path by traveling 1.2 km.

Sources: Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons

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