The hillfort lies on the western bank of Šlavanto lake, hidden by a willow grove. It features a rectangular courtyard, 24x20 m in size, with an average height of 1 m. While an entrance once existed on the eastern side, there is now a filled embankment on the northern edge of the courtyard, 1 m high and 14 m wide.
Behind this embankment on the northern slope, there is a 5 m wide, 0.3 m deep trench, followed by a second filled embankment 0.4 m high and 10 m wide on an external slope. On the western and southern slopes, trenches and embankments form a 10 m wide terrace. The slopes themselves stand 13-14 m high. The courtyard is decorated with ditches and trenches.
Dating to the 1st millennium – beginning of the 2nd millennium, the site was surveyed in 1954 by the Institute of History. It was declared a cultural monument in 1998. The monument's territory covers 6,300 square meters, with a physical protection zone of 5,000 square meters. A settlement at the southwestern foot of the hill contains shards of coarse ceramics.
Sources: Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons
Written by Nicolo Ciampini
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