Description
The height of the stone is 2.8 m, the circumference – 12.8 m, the volume – 22 m3, the weight – about 57 t. Until 1980, only a small part of the secular stone was visible. It was in a ravine, surrounded by trees, bushes and a pile of stones. When in the 1980s, land reclamation works were carried out, the pile of stones was removed, the field was levelled, but the Birži Secular stone remained. In 1983, efforts were made to move this giant to the centre of Birži in Sala Rural Territory. When the ground was excavated, the sheer size of the stone was revealed, making it impossible to move and the idea remained unrealised.
