The first week of excavations in Pöide hillfort has yielded finds of mainly 13th-14th century buildings, one of which has a well-preserved base of an oven.
There is no doubt that the hillfort was in use until around the time of the St. George’s Night uprising (1343-1345) – as was already suggested during excavations in the 1990s. A small knife with a fine bronze handle indicates that it was used by members of a higher social stratum who were active here.
In fact, one might think that the place called Pöide, mentioned in written sources around 1300, which was conquered at the time by the brothers of the Teutonic Order and taken back by the islanders during the uprising of 1343, was most probably the same Pöide hillfort, not the fortress near the church Pöide, where no such early buildings have actually been found.
