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Mound of Mikyčiai

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The mound is located on a separate hill. The site is oval, elongated in a north-south direction, 26x22 m in size, with a prominent center. On the southern slope, 2 m below the site and on the northern slope, 1.5 m below, there is a 3.5 m wide terrace. Slopes of medium steepness, 8-10 m high. The mound is littered with gravel pits, plows, now it is soiled, on the northern slope grows birch and pine ghettos. In the northwestern and eastern foothills, on an area of 0.2 ha, there is a foothill settlement. The mound dates back to the first millennium.

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