Location
State: Latvia
Region: Riga
County: Aloja
Parish: Staicele
Other references to the location
About 400 m NE of Līciems, on the steep-sided bank of the junction of the Salaca and Īģe Rivers,at the Īģe River mouth into the Salaca River.
Coordinates
lat=57.9041666667, lon=24.8805555556
57° 54′ 15″ N, 24° 52′ 50″ E
Description
The Līciema Burial Ground and Church Site have been overgrown by mixed forest; oriented in parallel with the upper edge of the Salaca River line, approximately in E-W direction. At the steep-sided bank, there are ancient dug-ups with separate stones. From the southern side, the Burial Ground is surrounded by a tangible terrace or a burial ground wall, which is about a meter high. There are several visible stones. The E and W ends of the Burial Ground are more vague. The central or the more visible par of the Burial Ground is about 30 – 40 m long and about 15- 20 m wide; it has several separate stones, shallow entrenchments, holes and other minor relief alteretions. About 20 m W of the Burial Ground, at the steep-sided bank, there is a row of four larger (the average size that of a meter and more) artificially placed stones, near which, closer to the Burial Ground, there is a separate even larger stone. Right there about several ten meters away from the Burial Ground in S direction, there is a former sand-pit, which has been leveled, and several overgrown pits. According to preliminary information, there have been also human bones found.
Attraction
At present, the site is not very attractive, but it can be made so.
Availability
Arrival by road; an entrance and private ownership sign.
Infrastructure, management, facilities
None
Local info
None
Capacity
0 – 9
Publicity
Unknown
Legal Status
Private
