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Papiliai Mound

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The mound is dated from the end of the 1st millennium BC to the beginning of the 1st millennium. It is located in Papiliai settlement. The mound has been badly damaged by plowing, overgrown with birches, its site now lying fallow. Striated, rough and grinded pottery and slag were found in it. Remains of an ancient foothill settlement and small fragments of a molded pot were found near the mound. The mound was scientifically explored by Liudvikas Kšivickis and described by Jurgis Elisonas in 1903. The mound was scientifically explored by Petras Tarasenka in 1943, and by Institute of History in 1969. The finds are kept in Kupiškis Ethnographic Museum. The mound was included in the Register of Cultural Property in 1997, declared a cultural monument ​​in 1998, and recognized as protected by the state in 2005.

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