{"id":14491,"date":"2022-04-13T18:09:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/osiliana.eu\/?p=14491"},"modified":"2025-04-15T14:25:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T12:25:49","slug":"kaku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/osiliana.eu\/en\/kaku\/","title":{"rendered":"K\u00e4ku graves"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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K\u00e4ku kalmed.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The burial site of K\u00e4ku with its stone circle graves is located near the village of K\u00e4ku in the parish of Kaarma in the central part of Saaremaa, 2.5 km NW from the Kaarma hillfort and the nearby church. The approximate dimensions of the burial site are 180 m (S\u2013N) x 60\u2013100 m (S\u2013W). The whole area is densely covered with round stone barrows 10\u201320 cm in height and with a diameter of 5\u20137 m. A large part of the site has been destroyed or forested by now.<\/span><\/p>

The stone circle graves of K\u00e4ku were first excavated in the 1920s (by Aarne Michael Tallgren and Harri Moora), but larger scale archaeological excavations were conducted in 1948\u20131949 (by Leo Metsar). Metsar discovered nine stone circle graves and several burial patches in the area between them. The stone layers of the graves were quite thin and mostly comprised of one or two layers of limestone or granite boulders. Where the limestone walls consisted of 2\u20133 layers, the slabs had in places collapsed outwards. The stone circle graves at K\u00e4ku were not filled with head-sized granite stones, as was otherwise characteristic of most other stone graves in Saaremaa. Instead, they were filled with soil mixed with pebbles and shingles. The distance between graves was 2\u20134 m.<\/span><\/p>

The bone material and artefact pieces from the K\u00e4ku burial site were heavily burned and fragmentary. Most of the finds could be dated to the 11th century, some to the end of the 10th or the beginning of the 12th century. Unlike the Late Iron Age stone graves without formal structure also widespread in Saaremaa, the K\u00e4ku graves presumably included individual burials, although scientific analyses have yet to prove it.<\/span><\/p>

The humans buried in the K\u00e4ku graves lived probably 800\u2013900 metres away in the territory of the present-day K\u00e4ku village. A cultural layer dating from the 10th\u201312th centuries and later has been recorded in the village. Also, remains of a smithy dated to the 14th\u201317th centuries have been excavated near the village.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTHE BODY OF RESREARCH OF K\u00c4KU<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

K\u00e4ku kalmed. The burial site of K\u00e4ku with its stone circle graves is located near the village of K\u00e4ku in the parish of Kaarma in the central part of Saaremaa, 2.5 km NW from the Kaarma hillfort and the nearby church. The approximate dimensions of the burial site are 180 m (S\u2013N) x 60\u2013100 m …<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[267,1008],"tags":[796],"class_list":["post-14491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-https-osiliana-com-en-page_id8881previewtrue","category-kaku-graves","tag-kaku-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/osiliana.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/osiliana.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/osiliana.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osiliana.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osiliana.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14491"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/osiliana.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33573,"href":"https:\/\/osiliana.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14491\/revisions\/33573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osiliana.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osiliana.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osiliana.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}