The mound is located on a separate hill, on the right bank of Smeltalė. The site is round, 30 m in diameter, surrounded by an embankment up to 1.5 m high and 15 m wide, which is best preserved on the V side. Slopes of medium steepness, 3-8 m high.
The mound is surrounded by ditches and pits, overgrown with deciduous trees and bushes, the lower parts of the slopes are soiled, and a field road passes through the V slope.
The mound is also known as Kuncai and Bandužiai.
To the south-west of the mound, in the area of 12.6 ha, there is a foothill settlement (researched in 1990-1991, 1993-1994, 1996, 1999-2000). Up to 1.7 m thick XI-XIII c. cultural layer with the remains of wooden buildings, fireplaces, stone furnaces, iron melting furnace, brass brooches, loom weights, ship rivets, glass necklaces, plain and green pottery, animal bones. 600 m to the north is the II-XIII c. Bandužiai repository, researched in 1974, 1985-1989.
It stood on the mound in 1253. Curonian castle Žardė is mentioned.
The mound dates back to the 1st thousand. - 13th c.
Accessed from Taikos Avenue by turning on Žardupės Street, from there, without reaching Smeltalė, turn left (R) on the road (located on the left (N) side of the road).