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Vitkūnai mound with a settlement

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The 4.1 ha mound is located on a separate, elongated hill. The mound site is oval, 60x27 m in size. Striped pottery was found in it. In the northern, north-eastern, southern and south-western foothills, on an area of 1.5 ha, there is a foothill settlement where lined and roughened pottery has been found. The mound dates back to the 1st thousand B.C. - I thousand A.D. in the middle. This was established in 1958, 1972, 1975 and 1985 during archaeological excavations. There is a legend about the Vitkūnai mound, which says that the gentleman ordered the soldiers to pour the mountain with shovels. In what year it was unknown. Of course, the soldiers did not listen the gentleman. Then the gentleman was angry, and threatened to order the mountain to be poured not with shovels but with hats. Yes, probably than is how the Vitkūnai mound was built.