A teacher followed an old poem to a hillfortSourced
A hill appears in an old epic.
A teacher suspected a fort beneath it.
Estonian epic Kalevipoeg mentioned the hill at Iru. Teacher Artur Spreckelsen proposed that it might hold an ancient fort, publicizing the idea in 1922. Archaeological excavations began there in 1936.
A story pointed toward
a place to dig.
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