Velikuškių piliakalnio "kapai"

ENP. Tarasenka investigated the area of 1564 square meters on the Velikuškės hillfort (Zarasai district). Among the numerous finds of the 1st millennium B.C. and the beginning of the 2nd millennium there were 36 graves. Such a find is unique in the Lithuanian archaeology. During later investigations of the mounds such graves had not been found. The graves of the Velikuškės mound entered the Lithuanian archaeological literature with a rather extensive period - the Early Iron Age (5 th-1st c.B.C-12th c.). After the analysis of the investigation materials it was found out that there were no durials on the mound at all P. Tarasenka having no experience in cemetery excavations and under influence of popular and typical for this time theories on mounds took the places of sacrifice as cremation graves with remains of hearths and cobble stones aside of which there were finds of various chronology but only in 3 sites 4 human teeth were found. The finds are not typical for burials, there are no remains of human bones. The supposed graves are scattered in a big territory and are found in a culture layer, they are not similar to the known types of cremation graves and are not peculiar to north-east Lithuania Such are the main arguments proving probably the greatest mistake made by P. Tarasenka. Of all graves on the mound only inhumation grave No 6 found 30 cm deep might be an exception. AU circumstances of its finding show that it is not a simple grave, the defenders of the Velikuškės castle who perished during castle attack were buried there. According to the finds its dating might be about 13th c. The Velikuškės hillfort is a typical monument of the Sėliai tribes in north-east Lithuania which has been survived for a long time and has been several destroyed during ploughing. There are no graves on it and the statements in the literature about the burials on the mound are not true.

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