Kvietinių pilkapynas

Kvietinių pilkapynas, also called Pilkapiai, is a megalithic mound or barrow cemetery in Kvietiniai, within the northern part of Klaipėda District municipality in Lithuania. It lies on the right bank of the Minija, 0,9 km north-east of the A1 Vilnius–Kaunas–Klaipėda bridge over the river. The site covers 1,8 ha and is a state-protected cultural monument.

The cemetery stands on the first terrace of the Minija valley, where more than 10 earth mounds have been identified. Their diameters range from 6–14 m and their heights from 0,5–1,2 m. Some have been excavated. The area is covered by natural and planted woodland and was formerly cultivated. Kvietinių senosios kapinės lies to the north-west of the burial mounds.

The cemetery was discovered in the third decade of the XX century while pits for potato cellars were dug south of the village cemetery. Excavators found handmade clay urns containing cremated human remains, along with small fragments of handmade pottery and burned bone. The State Archaeological Commission collected information about the mounds in 1935 m., and Ignas Jablonskis surveyed the site in 1983 m.

The mounds were provisionally dated to the second half of the I millennium BC. They were declared a site of local archaeological importance in 1972 m., entered the Republic of Lithuania’s list of historical and cultural monuments in 1992 m., registered among archaeological sites in the cultural heritage register in 1997 m., and declared a cultural monument in 1998 m. In Lithuania, barrow cemeteries are generally small mound cemeteries recorded in national registers rather than megaliths.

Kvietinių pilkapynas is a megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones) in Lithuania. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the Lithuanian article "Kvietinių pilkapynas", shown in the original language.