Abuli fortress (Region of Samtskhe – Javakheti)
Abuli fortress (Georg. აბულის ციხე). Megalithic fortress, presumably built during the Bronze Age. The walls and towers are made of flat stones using dry masonry techniques. The masonry also contains very large stones. The fortress is located on Mount Malaya Abuli, which is an extinct volcano, at an altitude of 2650 meters above sea level. The slopes of the mountain are strewn with gray and brown stones, mostly flat, which suggests that it is fossilized lava.
The fortress has the shape of a ring. The walls are thick. The original height is unclear – part of the wall has been destroyed. Often, among the ruins of buildings, there are peculiar bowls – stones with a depression, reaching a diameter of one meter. It can be assumed that they were used to replenish water supplies. The entire building has a rather complex plan and is more like a city gradually formed behind several rows of defensive walls. The heights of the passages in the walls are small – about 1.5 meters in height, their width is limited by the natural length of the slabs from which the ceiling was made.
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