ENJuozapas Radziukynas, the ethnographer and the teacher, published a book “Suvalkų rėdybos pilekalniai su žemlapiu” (“Castle Hills in the Suvalkai Region”) in 1909. The book treats about two mounds in the Suvalkai region: Szurpily and Filipów. There are the descriptions of the appearance and the information about the dimensions of those mounds. The article quotes Juozapas Radziukynas’ text and presents the original story of the affiliation of Szurpily mound by Aleksander Połujański (“Visiting the Augustów Province for Scientific Reasons” published in Warsaw in 1859).