Location
State: Latvia
Region: Kurzeme
County: Kuldīga
Parish: Ēdole
Other references to the location
170 m S of the Pūjalgi Hill Fort, in a birch-tree forest, around 100 m of the forest road arranged by the Latvia’s State Forests (Latvijas Valsts meži.
Coordinates
lat=57.02825, lon=21.7273666667
57° 1′ 41″ N, 21° 43′ 38″ E
Description
On the site, an unaware person would hardly find it; about 8 m high hillock overgrown with mixed forest. Mostly birch-trees are growing there. The top of the hillock is about 50 x 20 m large. In the direction from NE to SW along the western side of the hillock, seemingly an old road is crossing it.
Narrative
On the Church Hill once there was an ash layer found. According to tales, on the hill there used to be a church. No construction or foundation remains are visible nowadays, and if there were some church in the Medieval Times, it would be a small wooden building. It is possible that this hillock is a cult site corresponding to the hill fort, and in this case its dating is older. The site has not been archaeologically studied.
Attraction
Some
Availability
Difficult to access. There are no information signs. Located on the edge of the road, accessible by walking, about 100 m off the road through underbrush woods. An unaware person can go there only by guessing and looking for GPS reading, because the forest around the object is strongly overgrown.
Infrastructure, management, facilities
There have been no facilitation and maintenance works performed within the territory, no indication signs.
Local info
There is no information stand on site
Capacity
0 – 9
Publicity
Known
Legal Status
Private
Comments
Remarkable as an ancient site as it adds to the cultural scenery of the Pujalgi Hill Fort.The nearby Pujalgi Hill Fort was described in 1923 by a hill fort researcher Ernests Brastiņš in his book about Kurzeme’s hill forts (Chapter 11, p. 133).
