Andreikėnai hillfort
Andreikėnai hillfort or Juozapota mountain is a hillfort in the territory of Utena district municipality, Utena neighborhood, near Andreikėnai village. Accessible from the road Kvykliai-Andreikėnai going for 2km from the junction in Kvykliai; it is on the right southward from the road, on the north-east outskirt of the forest.
The hillfort was built on the northern end of a separate big hill. The site is quadrangular, prolonged in the south-north direction, 82x21m, the northern edge 2m higher. There were found burnt bricks, some iron slag, brushed and smooth pottery. On the northern slope, 1m below the site, there is a terrace, 11m wide, 1m below which there is another terrace, 4m wide. On the southern slope there is a terrace of 9m width. The eastern and western slopes are steep, 25m high, the end slopes are more incline and lower.
The hillfort is severely damaged by ploughing; there is a road going to the site from the south-east. The site lies waste; the slopes are overgrown with pines. The hillfort dates back to the I millennium BC – the beginning of the I millennium AD.
At the eastern foothill in the area of 0.2ha there is a foothill settlement.
In this hillfort people were used to be buried: skeletal graves with or without cerements; the graves have been damaged by various earthworks; it is recorded that during the interwar years people‘s bones were washed out from the foot slope; as local people claim, on the northern slope there used to stand a wooden cross, while others remember that there used to be a chapel.
Legend about Andreikėnai hillfort
In the village of Andreikėnai there is a hillfort with such high and steep slopes. Earlier there wasn‘t any mountain. Once a bishop was travelling past this place toward Kvykliai. The horses took fright and the carriage turned over. And in that carriage there was a lot of golden money and jewels. The bishop together with the carriage got through the earth in the very place where the carriage had turned over. And there a big mountain emerged. Even now people say that sometimes at night you can see the bishop‘s money glittering.
