Mound of India is in Šilalė district. in the territory of the municipality, near the village of India, in the valley of the right bank of Akmena. The Indian Mound has nothing to do with the country of India, the name of the Mound comes from the nearby Indian village. The mound is also called Pile, Castle.
The hill is surrounded by a valley. The slopes are steep, 8-10 m high. The southwestern edge of the site, about 20 m long and 2-3 m wide, and part of the embankment about 4 m high, which was at its southeastern end, remained. Behind it is a ditch 2 m wide (at the top) and 1 m deep. On the eastern slope, 7 m below the site, there is a second, low, embankment. To the north of the mound, behind a 10 m deep ditch, there is another hill where there was probably papylus, but most of it was also washed away by Akmena. Previously, the mound could be surrounded by Akmena from three sides, the rest being an old one.
Pūtves Castle stood on the mound. Her in 1307 in the morning, the army of the Order led by Folch, commander of Ragaina, attacked and burned the papilla. 1308 Spud the castle betrayed the castle to the same commander by secretly opening its gates. Order soldiers the castle crew was killed, and the castle with the papilla was burned. The castle was later rebuilt. 1328 the castle was again attacked and burned in the morning by the soldiers of the Order, and the people who were in it were killed.
