The western shore of Mergežeris is framed by elongated hills, about 0.5 km long. Kačėniškės mound was once located here. On one side, its slope ends at the lake, and on the west - in a lowland, which leads from this site and winds its way. The height of the slopes from the water surface at the highest point of the hill reaches 22 meters. From the top of the hill, where the area of the site is about 660 m2, there is a view not only of the lake, but also of the hills of the Švenčioni uplands on the other side. The slopes of the mound contain the remains of former moats with embankments. The eastern slope used to be steeper and has slipped into the lake in the past. in 2013 the maintenance and adaptation works of the mound for visiting have been carried out. The Public Enterprise "Cultural Heritage Conservation Forces" conducted exploratory archaeological research, during which they recorded at least two horizons of the cultural layer, which lead to the conclusion that the mound was inhabited in two phases - the period of the late striped pottery (end of the 1st millennium BC) and the early rough pottery. during the ceramic period (beginning of the 1st millennium - middle of the 1st millennium).
During the archaeological investigations, small pebbles that were in the fire, several animal bones, traces of melted ceramics or clay plaster, the remains of striped pottery, as well as fragments of pottery with a smooth or rough surface, indicating different periods of habitation of the Kačėniškė mound, were found.
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