Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)
Jutonių pilkapynas
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The Jutonių (Dubingių) pilkapynas is a barrow cemetery in Švenčionys District Municipality, Lithuania, near the village of Jutoniai (Pabradė eldership), north of Lake Baluošas, in the eastern part of Dubingiai forest. It is entered in the cultural property register under code A1073 P.
It consists of about 120 barrows. The form of the barrows and the burial rite are typical of the ninth to the twelfth century.
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Jutonių pilkapynas
It is south-east of the Dubingiai–Joniškis road, in the middle part of quarter 36 of Dubingiai forest.
DescriptionSources for this section
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The cemetery lies 0.5 km south-west of the village of Jutoniai, 0.45 km in the same direction from the right bank of the river Jutonys, and 0.15 km north-east of Lake Baluošas. It is south-east of the Dubingiai–Joniškis road, in the middle part of quarter 36 of Dubingiai forest.
The barrows have mounds 6–12 m in diameter and up to 2 m high. Many of the mounds are surrounded by ditches. A dozen or so barrows in the northern part of the cemetery were destroyed in 1939 when the Dubingiai–Joniškis road was built.
ExcavationsSources for this section
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Staff of the Vytautas the Great Cultural Museum (now the Vytautas the Great War Museum), led by Pranas Baleniūnas, excavated 3 barrows. In two of them cremated dead had been buried, and burnt human and animal bones were found. In the third barrow there was a pit 2.5 m in diameter and 1.1 m deep containing remains of wood and charcoal.
Reconnaissance investigations were carried out in 1970 by archaeologists of the Institute of History and in 1978 by archaeologists of the Scientific Methodological Council for the Protection of Monuments.
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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 such monuments are barrow cemeteries rather than 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°03′20″ N, 25°34′40″ EFor a GPS or map app: 55.05556, 25.57778
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Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
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- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Baltadvario pilkapynai
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Sarių pilkapynas
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Mėžionių pilkapynas
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Kretuonų pilkapynas
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