Standing on a headland of the high right bank of the Nemunas in Vilijampolė, the Veršvai (or Lampėdžiai) hill fort dates from the 1st millennium to the 14th century. According to archaeologists, a wooden castle stood here in the 13th–14th centuries and was destroyed during the wars with the Teutonic Knights. So this hill fort is also important when speaking about the beginnings of the Lithuanian state. The plateau of the hill fort is almost rectangular, elongated, 12 × 9 m in size. On its eastern edge there is a rampart 3.5 m high and 20 m wide. On the south-western slope, 2 m below the plateau, there is a terrace 3 m wide. The slopes of the hill fort are steep and as much as 37 metres high. The hill fort is overgrown with deciduous trees and shrubs. During excavations in 1986, a metre-thick cultural layer dating from the 1st millennium BC to the 14th century was found on the plateau, with post holes, smooth pottery and the remains of an 18th–19th-century smithy. At the foot of the Veršvai hill fort, on its northern side, there was a settlement dating from the 1st millennium BC to the 13th century. It was excavated in 1985–1986 and in 1997. Before the western bypass was built, remains of buildings, flint scrapers, blades and flakes, iron knives, whetstones and parts of rotary querns were found here. About 1 km south-east of the Veršvai hill fort there was a burial ground from the 2nd–14th centuries, excavated in 1938–1941 and in 1954. About 700 inhumation and cremation burials of people and inhumation burials of horses were investigated here, and various grave goods were found. The hill fort was photographed more than once by the photographer, ethnographer and local historian Balys Buračas. In his diaries he tells how, visiting in 1931, he heard from a local resident that the inside of the hill fort was hollow and that there was a cellar beneath the hill. Buračas also managed to record the origin of the name of the Lampėdžiai valley, which is clearly visible from the hill fort. Supposedly, fairies (laumės) used to gather in the valley in the old days, bathing and amusing themselves here. The laumės left footprints (pėdos) in the sand, so the place came to be called Laumpėdos, and later the name changed. The local Veršvai community does a great deal to look after and promote the hill fort. Community events, state holidays and traditional Baltic festivals are regularly held here.