🏛 Burial Mounds: Oleg's Grave

Старая Ладога, урочище Сопки

Tall grassy burial mounds on the steep bank of the Volkhov with a wide view of the river.

The mound "Oleg's Grave", about 10 metres high, is the most monumental of the Ladoga mounds.
In 1820 Zorian Dołęga-Chodakowski partly excavated it and found burnt bones and a spearhead from the 8th – early 9th century.
The Novgorod chronicle says Oleg died from a snakebite and "his grave is in Ladoga", while the Primary Chronicle places the grave in Kyiv.
According to archaeologists, the name "Oleg's Grave" stuck to this mound only in the 1920s–1940s — the mound itself is older than Oleg.

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