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Riečių Hillfort

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The Riečių Hillfort is located in the southern part of Riečių village, Gudeliai Eldership, within Marijampolė Municipality. It can be accessed via Road 181 from Seirijai to Simnas to Igliauka, passing through Riečių village and then turning right, 450 meters westward across wet meadows, beyond the canal. The hillfort is situated on a land promontory extending into the Žuvintas Marshes. The hillfort area is triangular in shape, elongated in a north-south direction, measuring 25 meters long and 20 meters wide at the southern end. The slopes of the hillfort are moderately steep, rising up to 10 meters high.

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rising up to 10 meters high. The hillfort has been significantly disturbed by farming and trenching work for a triangulation tower. Gravel was extracted from the southeastern part of the site, but now the area is overgrown, with stones up to 1.2 meters in diameter remaining on the surface. In 2001, a cross was erected in the hillfort area in memory of the Liepakojai village, created by Ignas Gaulė. A causeway once existed between the hillfort and the elevated area where the Riečių Church of the Holy Trinity now stands. The hillfort dates back to the 1st millennium AD.

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