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<< Our Photo Pages >> Ūdri (Pūķi) cross stone - Ancient Cross in Latvia

Submitted by valters_grivins on Friday, 17 May 2019  Page Views: 517

Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Ūdri (Pūķi) cross stone
Country: Latvia
NOTE: This site is 20.037 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Cross
 Nearest Village: Ģikši
Latitude: 57.147971N  Longitude: 25.376580E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Ūdri (Pūķi) cross stone
Ūdri (Pūķi) cross stone submitted by valters_grivins : Ūdri (Pūķi) cross stone. Amatas pagasts, Amatas novads, Latvija/Latvia. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ūdri cross stone is located at Pūķi (as Ūdri are renamed recently) farmstead (Amata parish/pagasts) living house, 12–15 meters from it's DR corner, at the right side of entrance road, besides large oak tree.

The stone is an oblong, trapezium shaped piece of Rapakivi granite. Length about 92cm, width - about 60cm, height - 30-42cm. The plane with cross is possibly leveled. Size of cross - apr. 37x39cm, depth - 2-2,5cm.

Several cross stones (stones with engraved crosses), located in a line, were registered about 300-400m from Ūdri farmstead in 1926. And one cross stone - as the home owner then said to registrar - was immured in home's basement. Nevertheless in soviet occupation time stones were lost. Researchers visited Ūdri several times and tried to locate stones, but without success. Surroundings of home were changed by melioration.

Then, in the summer of 2018 present-day home owners did the basement insulation works and excavated a stone, which later appeared to be one from the lost Ūdri cross stones.

Comparing Ūdri stone with other known cross stones in the region, especially Cēsis un Valmiera historical districts, also taking in mind the context, we can draw the conclusion that most possibly it's one from early medieval (13-14 CE) border stones, possibly put down to mark the border between lands of Livonian Sword brothers order and those of Riga's archbishop. "https://www.historia.lv/sites/default/files/styles/600x450_scaled_focused/public/media/galerijas/2019/aprilis/Puku_krustakmens/img_0006.jpg"
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Ūdri (Pūķi) cross stone
Ūdri (Pūķi) cross stone submitted by valters_grivins : Site in Latvia (Vote or comment on this photo)

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