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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Old Castle of Lieto Alternative Name: Liedon Vanhalinna, Lieto Hillfort, Lieto HillCountry: Finland
NOTE: This site is 21.469 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Turku
Latitude: 60.486389N Longitude: 22.377222E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Near the present town of Turku in the southern part of Finland is one of the most important hill-forts in this region known as the Old Castle of Lieto or (in Finnish) Liedon Vanhalinna.
Whilst relatively few of Finland’s hill-forts have been excavated, the Old Castle of Lieto has been shown to have been used in various periods, including the Late Bronze Age, the Middle Iron Age and the Middle Ages up to the end of the 14th century.
This hillfort lies on a steep hillside and is strategically placed between two ancient routes: the Aura river and the Oxen Way of Tavastia.
In 1956 Lieto Hill was donated to the University of Turku which uses the hillfort for archaeological training. Some of the ancient walls and outlines of buildings can be seen and there is a museum displaying some of the finds.
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