Baltadvario pilkapynai

The mounds are 6-20 m in diameter and 0.3-2 m high. Some are surrounded by pits or ditches, and remains of stone wreaths are present. Some of the barrows have been destroyed or damaged by the laying of an electricity line and by the ploughing of forest clearings. About 0.4 km to the south-west a fourth cemetery of 7 barrows was found.

Survey work was carried out in 1978 and 1988 by the Cultural Heritage Research Centre. In 2000-2001 Bronius Dakanis excavated three barrows of the first cemetery, dated to the 6th to 8th century. The mounds were 0.7-0.8 m high and 7-9 m in diameter, and each was surrounded by 7 pits, 2-3 m long, 1.25-2.5 m wide and up to 1 m deep.

At the base of each mound (4.5-5.5 m in diameter) a cultural layer 15-20 cm thick with burnt remains was found. In one barrow the bones of a cremated person had been poured into a pit; in the others, beside the pits, a pair of iron three-piece snaffle bits with links at the ends was found. It is thought that at burial a ring of pits was dug, the dead person was burnt between them, the remains were poured into one of the pits, and the mound was heaped over the place of burning and later eroded into the pits.