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Seredžius mound

History

Mound Nemunas upper terrace cape, formed Pieštvės stream. In the northwest mound surrounded Pieštvės stream, from the south - Nemunas Valley of northeastern reaches an adjacent hill. The site almost triangular, elongated east-west direction, 50 m long, 35 m wide in the east. Its eastern end was added 7 m high, 20 m wide, the first flush of an external 9 m high slope descends to 10 m wide and 4 m deep trench 4 meters wide on the bottom (the best preserved in the southeast slope) juosusį and the northern foot of the mound. Ditch on the outside filled the second of 3 m high and 10 m wide dyke, better preserved only in the northern and southeastern parts. Western slope of 6 m below the area is 2 m wide terrace. The slopes are steep, 30 m high in the upper 6-8 meters high in artificial pastatinti. Dimensions: 320 m northeast - southwest direction and 250 m in width.

Eroded mound of plowed fields, the first rampart dug a huge pit area countries - Foxhole. Lying fallow. On the mound from the lower part of the town Seredžius up stairs. The mound dates back to the middle of the first millennium - the fifteenth century. beginning.

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