Ruins of 1200-1400-year-old defense walls upon the Linnavuori hill of Kauttua, Eura, Finland. The barrier structures (apparently a small castle of sorts made partly from wood stood there) worked as the last resort in the Viking-age Eura if the land was attacked. Picture from September.

The hill is one of the highest places in Kauttua, but there's an almost similar kind of hill very near, to the east toward Harola. I climbed upon it a few weeks ago, and oddly enough some of the rock formations there looked man-made, as if that hill might've once contained defense walls also. Wouldn't be impossible, since about half a kilometer to the south there are some newly unearthed archeological sites that have odd stone rings from the bronze age.


(Don't worry, I'm not going to post a hundred pics of mossy rocks into my gallery. Just sorting out through some of the better pics taken during my hiking trips.)