Event Review: Bronze Casting in Daugailiai, Lithuania
On 13 July 2024 the village of Daugailiai celebrated the 770th year of its founding on with a festival that included demonstrations and experiments in bronze casting. Daugailiai is a village in Utena County in Northeast Lithuania. The village features a hillfort, which is dated to 1st millennium BC-...
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| Language: | English |
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2024-11-01
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| Series: | EXARC Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://exarc.net/ark:/88735/10763 |
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| Summary: | On 13 July 2024 the village of Daugailiai celebrated the 770th year of its founding on with a festival that included demonstrations and experiments in bronze casting. Daugailiai is a village in Utena County in Northeast Lithuania. The village features a hillfort, which is dated to 1st millennium BC-beginning of 1st Millenium AD, upon which a castle was built in 1254 and a church and cemetery that were built in 1685. The hillfort is 10-12 metres high and has a 46x30 metre oval shape. A set of stairs leads to the summit and at the base there are signboards with QR codes that provide visitors with information about the site. |
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| ISSN: | 2212-8956 |