Objects

Reddish granite, large crystalline, with a volume of about 40 m3 and dimensions of 6.80 x 4.90 x 2.75 m. The otherwise flat surface of 25 m2 contains several gently sloping depressions, which seem particularly interesting because of the gently sloping ditch found in the deeper soil layers in close proximity to the stone. A small path leads from Stupeļi castle mounds to the Great Stupeļi stone.

The mythical potential of the site had already been discovered by the ancient inhabitants of the area, as artefacts, pottery shards and even bones dating from the 10th-13th centuries have been found in the vicinity of the great stone at Stupeļi castle mound. In the 1980s, archaeologists studied it and suggested that it might be an ancient cult stone. The shape of the stone itself is a bit like an inverted pyramid, formed from a special type of granite – wiborgit