Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)
Jakšiškio pilkapynas
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The Jakšiškio pilkapynas is a large barrow cemetery in the Anykščiai District Municipality of Lithuania, near the village of Jakšiškis in the Kavarskas elderate. It lies in woodland close to the confluence of the Dagys and the Šventoji, and is catalogued as a megalithic mound with integral stones. It contains about 150 mounds.
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Jakšiškio pilkapynas
The cemetery lies 0,2 km south of the confluence of the Dagys and the Šventoji and 0,1 km east of the left bank of the Šventoji.
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The cemetery lies 0,2 km south of the confluence of the Dagys and the Šventoji and 0,1 km east of the left bank of the Šventoji. The mounds are spread over a strip 50–100 m wide and about 1 km long, and at its south-western end the cemetery ends on a high hill. The mounds vary in size, from 6-8 to 10–15 m in diameter and from 0,6 to 1-1,5 m in height, and they are surrounded by ditches.
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The form of the mounds is characteristic of the ninth to the twelfth centuries.
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Exploratory investigations were carried out in 1969 by archaeologists of the Institute of History and in 1974 by archaeologists of the Scientific Methodological Council for the Protection of Monuments. The Knitiškių pilkapynas lies about 0,15 km to the south of the Jakšiškio pilkapynas.
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Along the southern and eastern shores of the Baltic, burial mounds mark the territories of the Baltic peoples. In Lithuanian they are called pilkapiai, and the monuments of this kind are mostly cemeteries of small mounds recorded in national registers. They are barrow cemeteries and not megaliths.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Baltic barrow cemeteries
Along the southern and eastern shores of the Baltic, burial mounds mark the territories of the Baltic peoples. In Lithuanian they are called pilkapiai, and the Atlas's Lithuanian and Belarusian records are mostly cemeteries of small mounds recorded in national registers. They are barrow cemeteries and not megaliths.
The deepest root of the tradition is the West Baltic barrow culture of the early Iron Age, from which most of the Western Baltic culture arose. That culture, of the Bronze Age and Iron Age along the southern coast of the Baltic, was ethnically Baltic and shared similar monuments and funeral rites; its tribes included the Old Prussians, Galindians, Yotvingians and Skalvians. Further north, the Curonians, a medieval Baltic tribe of the fifth to sixteenth centuries CE, lived on the coast of what are now western Latvia and Lithuania, and their neighbours the Samogitians lived inland to the east. Mounds of the broader barrow tradition, the kurgans, had spread into eastern and northern Europe as early as the third millennium BCE.
Because a cemetery is made up of many small mounds, it records an ordinary community and not a single ruler. Many of these mounds have not been excavated, so the Atlas gives them a broad range and does not claim a date.
When visiting, look for a group of small round mounds under trees or on a river terrace, and note how the mounds are laid out along the terrace or ridge.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Western Baltic culture, Wikipedia: Curonians, Wikipedia: Samogitians, Wikipedia: Kurgan, Wikipedia: Tumulus · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Where it stands
Lithuania
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- Coordinates
- 55°21′00″ N, 24°54′30″ EFor a GPS or map app: 55.35000, 24.90833
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Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
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- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Skarulių pilkapiai
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Dailidžių-Ardiškio pilkapynai
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Kernavės pilkapynas
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