Kastelli Giant's Church

Kastelli Giant's Church is a prehistoric stone enclosure situated near Pattijoki in the North Ostrobothnia region of Finland [1]. It is one of the largest of forty such "Giant's Churches" to be found in this region of Finland [1]. It dates to around 2000 BC [1]. The Giant's Church at Kastelli is a rectangular stone enclosure measuring around 60 by 35 metres [1]. The walls are seven metres wide and survive to a height of two metres [1]. When built it would have been on a rocky shoreline [1]. The enclosure is surrounded by more than twenty stone cairns [1]. The site was excavated in the 1920s; it has been dated to around 2000 BC [1].