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Submitted by Anne T on Thursday, 16 October 2014  Page Views: 3046

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Old Castle of Lieto Alternative Name: Liedon Vanhalinna, Lieto Hillfort, Lieto Hill
Country: Finland
NOTE: This site is 8.687 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Turku
Latitude: 60.486389N  Longitude: 22.377222E
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
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4Short walk on a footpath
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Old Castle of Lieto
Old Castle of Lieto submitted by Anne T : Old castle of Lieto + Aura river - FINLAND Image of the Old Castle of Lieto, taken by Fablen Querrec on 10th September 2010. Image copyright: fabien querrec, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Hillfort in Southern Finland
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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Old Castle of Lieto
Old Castle of Lieto submitted by Anne T : Image from Wikimedia, taken by Apalsola. "Lieto old castle 3" by Original uploader was Drieakko at en.wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by User:Apalsola using CommonsHelper.. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Old Castle of Lieto
Old Castle of Lieto submitted by Anne T : Linnavuori. Image of the Old Castle of Lieto, taken by VesaM on 31st July 2010. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Castle_of_Lieto Image copyright: VesaM, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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