Three mounds and motte of Vaskút Multi-cache

Dear Geocachers,

I would like to introduce you an extraordinary sight in Bács-Kiskun county. Though I recommend this cache only to the really desperate cachers because the place is already overgrown. Thus you should wear long sleeve shirt and long pants. You will need this protection on that terrain!

We meet with the name of the village for first time in 1400 in a deed Bachuta form which says that local chapter László Töttös rejoins the town into his empire. In 1406 the village is mentioned on the name Bácskut in note about Baja market.In a census of Czobor family (after the wars of liberation, when the Lordship of Baja was returned to them ) it was mention as Baskut-barren in 1724. At the middle of the XVIII. century Vaskút became property of Grassalkovich family as an individual town. Germans were relocated here by the landlord. Two of the monuments of Vaskút deserve attention the Kálvária-chapel built in 1825 and the Catholic church which was built in 1880. The pictures of the Kálvária stáció were painted by Erzsébet Udvardi.

Two mounds pulled up on the north side, and two in the ring The historic value of the mounds and motte are not properly valued, and even does not enjoy any protection. Over the time 10 mounds of the 13 disappeared. Let's take care of the remaining values??!

Today's area where Vaskút lays was already inhabited at the time of AD 4th century.This is evidenced in the south of the village, about a kilometer away completely preserved motte and not far away the 5-6 metres high mounds from the same age.

The excavation in 12-15th of June 1868 there were 13 mounds and a "ring" castle. East of the Baja-Gara highway, South of Vaskút village the multiple mounds (slowly disappearing now) leads to the conclusion that this place was inhabited in the Sarmatian-jazyg age and the castle with the hills were important strategic points. The old town features most notably Mihály Kohegyi - Gabriella Vörös "Mounds and motte of Vaskút" History of research material and communication's processing describes.

Castle, in which "five fathoms deep in a hole opened where eight people could enter and they could clearly see by the three candlelights the several  entrances around. In the belly of the hill there was a sitting skeleton with strong bones, facing to East with few rusty tools next to him. In each mound a chamber like this was found. which are originated, that when the tree constitution rotted and collapsed earth fell and let space on the upper side. "Professor Ferenc Czirfusz minutes of the excavation. On the ground you pile holes and pits were found (probably two lines of defence of wattle fence, guard towers could be), and had found traces of a space heating too. They also found Neolithic pottery, Bronze Age pottery, ceramics, Celtic and Roman artefacts.

You can find the burial mounds easily, walking from Vaskút to Gara on the left side right after the establishment of a farm you will see them a little farther. You can either park the car or go in few meter and park to the left immediately after the band where the trench becomes shallow. Even though it just a  shallow trench be careful with the parking, I had no problem with parking there with my low car. There is no established way to the hills (but can be visited freely), you can approach through the balk between the establishment of a farm and the arable land.

You can see the motte from the top of mounds looking to the South, if you found it go back to the road and go to South direction until this coordinate:
 

you should go into the woods, then through the "castle wall" and down to the bottom, where you will find in the middle of a clearing a fork-branched acacia tree. The cache is hidden at the foot of this tree. In case you feel convinced about walking you can go around the place (the one who got until here, walking around is nothing :) ), then you can find the gate at the West-Northwest side of the ring. Allegedly at the excavation huge wood pales were found that once
were supporting the gate. Claiming back to the embankment a little farther along in the jungle in the north-side you can see a mound (from the 13 hills only three survived, but the mound in the middle in half is cut off, this was one of tomb which was excavated). If you are still up to some adventure and you go the South-Eastern corner of the ring you can find a circular elevation which is part of the ring already or was joined to the ring (it is difficult to know because of the vegetation).
Do not be surprised if on one of the sites you meet local amateur archaeologists, from time to time they come here as well. Allegedly they found a short sword and pottery remains.

There are beehives at the western tomb's northern foot. The castle is full of fox and badger holes with castles. Watch your step, because if your ankle is twisted the road is far!