Supramysterious Kounov rows

"Na rovinách" ("On the flatlands") hill is, if we take monuments into account, probably most important place of Džbán ("Mug") table hills. There are old claystone mines, St.Adalbert's chapel, a Hallstatt-La Tène period hillfort and, last but not least, the famous Kounov rows. Their origin remains unknown even although there were few archaeological digs and a dozen more nonspecialist theories. Someone thinks they are megaliths and calls them "Czech Carnac", others point out that postmedieval temporary fields offered to local people by land owners at clearances were often marked this way, and there are even theories, that the complex was an ancient observatory of a race-course. The sleeping stones actually ignore all these thougths. 

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