Ukmergė Hill Fort
A hill fort at the confluence of the Ukmergėlė and the Šventoji, associated with Vilkmergė castle; slopes up to 16 m high.
Ukmergė hill fort stands at the confluence of the Ukmergėlė and the Šventoji and is associated with Vilkmergė castle; it is dated to the fourteenth century to the middle of the fifteenth. The slopes are steep, up to 16 m high, and the round 26 × 30 m platform is ringed by a 85 m long rampart up to 4 m high. By the hill fort there is a 0.5 ha settlement at its foot, and 200 m to the south-west, on a promontory, a bailey was built. In 2003 an expedition of the Lithuanian Institute of History found fragments of wheel-thrown pottery in the settlement. The encyclopedia notes that farming damaged the hill fort. (source, checked 2026-10-09)
Ukmergė Hill Fort on the map (OpenStreetMap)Route to Ukmergė Hill Fort (OpenStreetMap)
Other places in Ukmergė
Photo: Vilensija, CC BY-SA Church of Sts Peter and Paul
A neoclassical church built in 1818 and rebuilt in 1939, with eighteenth-century paintings and a monstrance.
Photo: Vilensija, CC BY-SA Ukmergė Regional Museum
The town history exhibition in a former cinema in Kęstučio Square; open on Saturday 9:00–16:00.
More about the city: a weekend in Ukmergė.