The Dovilai Hillfort is hidden in the woods on the right bank of the Minija River, so it can only be found by meticulously following the road signs starting at the Dovilai settlement itself.
The hillfort was once a real local celebrity, as evidenced by several local names given to it (Pilalės kalnas, Pelutės kalnas and Muškalnis) and close to twenty different stories and legends about it. One of them says that there was a hole in the hillfort. The shepherds thought there were some treasures inside, so they used a rope to lower the smallest of them down to check. The shepherd boy found a gate at the end of the cave and an old man behind it. The man took the child inside, fed him the most delicious meals and showed him a great palace shining with gold where he was granted powers. Then the old man let the shepherd boy out of the cave but ordered him not to tell anyone about what he had seen. The masters were very surprised to see the shepherd boy alive, as three days had already passed since his disappearance. After persistent questioning as to where he had been and what he had seen, the shepherd boy finally gave up and told the truth, and he lost his powers in the blink of an eye. This is a story written before World War II.
The site area on the hillfort, located on the spur of the hill, is long and narrow (110×20–25 metres in size), with 0.5–2.5 metres high banks at the ends. The slopes are steep and about 9 metres high.
At the end of 1944, the hillfort was included in the defence system of Klaipėda: a trench was dug on the eastern edge of the top site, as well as concrete bunkers for machine gunners (the so-called Koch bunkers) were dug out in the banks and an anti-tank ditch with a bank at the foot of the slopes.
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