Warbstow Bury


Warbstow Bury is an Iron Age hillfort about west of the village of Warbstow, in Cornwall, England.
Views to Lundy Island and Dartmoor

Location and description

The site is above sea level, on a hill at the heads of two tributaries of the River Ottery. It has been a scheduled monument since 26 November 1928.
The fort is one of the largest earthworks in Cornwall. It is an oval enclosure, area about . There are two concentric ramparts and ditches; the ramparts are up to high, with ditches up to deep. Between these, in the southern part, are the remains of an earlier rampart.
The inner rampart has two original entrances, inturned and facing each other, on the north-west and south-east, and there are corresponding simple entrances in the outer rampart.

Pillow mound

In the centre of the fort is a medieval rabbit warren: a rectangular mound, or pillow mound, about long, wide and high. It is known as "The Giant's Grave" or "King Arthur's Grave".