Varnikų Hillfort (Veršupka)

The mound is located in a beautiful location on a separate hill, approximately 130 m to the northeast of Lake Nerespinka, 170 m to the south of Lake Galvė. Archaeologists excavated this mound and found molded striped pottery. Such ceramics are characteristic of the period from the 1st millennium. BC to the first centuries AD. This allows us to assume that the Varniki mound was inhabited quite a long time ago. Varnikai is a mound with a very small square, so it could not serve as an important defensive castle, but it perfectly performed the functions of a hideout or reconnaissance. Unfortunately, however, there is a lack of written sources that would shed light on the significance and functions of this mound in this historical area of Trakai near the important old trade route to Vilnius.