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Černiauskai Mound

The Černiauskai hillfort, often referred to by the name of Leipalingis, is located on a separate hill in the valley of an unnamed stream, and was used in the early 1st – 2nd millennia. The site is oval, elongated NW-SE, 50 m long and 11 m wide, up to 1 m high with a convex centre, with a cultural layer on the edges. The slopes are quite steep, 6-7 m high. The mound is heavily buried by ploughs, gravel pits and pits.
To the east of the mound, on an area of 0,2 ha, a sub-foot settlement was discovered, which contained striated, roughened and ringed pottery, slag, animal bones, clay plaster, a sherd of clay crucible, and a clay cylinder spindle.