Veliuona mounds - mounds and fortifications complex Jurbarkas district municipality territory Veliuona town Nemunas valley slope. The complex - archaeological - historical monument, which consists of Veliuona to the mound , called Gediminas grave, his Papilys, known as Castle Hill or the Hill of Peace and 2.7 km to the west in Veliuona II mound called Pilaitėmis.
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Gediminas tomb or Veliuona to the mound by tradition is considered to Veliuona died Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas death place. Research shows there was a wooden castle, which often attacked the Crusaders . [1] Duke Gediminas the mound monument.
Castle Hill has been regarded as a separate mountain. He is separated from Gediminas tomb 17 years. the depth of the moat, its status 30 years. the height of the slope descends to the Nemunas valley, east of the ditch, in the northern Veliuona stream valley. West from the highlands he separated wide about 4 m deep moat. At the top of a large, about 80 m. long and about 40 m. the width of the eastern end of the lot. Its northern edge, tells the past and the western and eastern end was to see the brick foundations of the wall. Parking eroded the twentieth century. the beginning of the planting of the garden. After the research found there may have been a first or lower ward of the mound on his standing in 1412. rebuilt brick Veliuona Castle. There is reason to believe that further to the west - northwest upland adjacent castle was established Papilys, which later built the church and worked in the town. [2]
Pilaitėse or Veliuona II mound 2.65 kilometers west of Veliuona to the mound, archaeologists believe stood 1,337 years. Crusader castle built in two buildings, which is supposed to block Veliuona castle. Judging by the archaeological research, the castle Lithuanian was soon attacked and burned. [3]
Complex belongs to the north and the contents of the earlier start of the second millennium Antkalnės mound , also called the Giants' graves Newcomer, Gystėnų mound.
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