The chronicle of Wigand of Marburg records that in 1379 Gottfried von Linden, Marshal of the Teutonic Order, while ravaging Lithuania, "went down the Neris as far as Eiguliai". This is the first mention of the place name. Today Eiguliai is a district of Kaunas, and its 14th-century history is recalled by the hillfort hidden here. The hillfort on the left bank of the Neris, near today's Eiguliai cemetery, can be reached from Jonavos Street by turning into the narrow Kamajų Street, finding a small passage and climbing some concrete steps. The top of the hillfort measures 70 × 60 m and has rounded corners. It lies fallow, and the trenches have been damaged. At the eastern end there is a rampart 5–6 m high. It is thought that Eiguliai (Egollen) castle stood on this hillfort. It was burned by the Teutonic Knights on 30 June 1382. Some believe that it was near the rebuilt Eiguliai castle that Vytautas defeated Skirgaila in 1390. In 1956, during preparations to build a house on the hillfort, the middle of the rampart was pushed into the ditch by a bulldozer, but the intervention of Petras Tarasenka, the founder of Lithuanian archaeology, stopped the construction. Excavations here uncovered wheel-thrown pottery shards decorated with horizontal parallel and wavy lines and various notches, pieces of burnt clay daub and an iron crossbow bolt head. Near today's Eiguliai cemetery there is a burial ground associated with the hillfort, investigated between the wars. It contained 47 inhumation and 4 cremation graves dating from the 4th–7th centuries. Stones were found at the bottom of the inhumation graves. Men's graves contained iron axes, spearheads, knives, brooches and rings. Women's graves held jewellery: neck rings, brooches, pins, bracelets and many glass, enamel and amber beads. To the north-east of the cemetery, Stone and Bronze Age settlements were found and investigated after the Second World War. Traces of hearths, flint arrowheads, scrapers, burins, pottery and flint artefacts were found here. The Eiguliai hillfort, close to the famous Kaunas Clinics, is not the only interesting site in the area. Just a kilometre away is the 7th Fort of Kaunas Fortress, which houses a museum, holds various lessons for schoolchildren and has a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.