Warbstow Bury is an Iron Age hillfort about west of the village of Warbstow, in Cornwall, England. It is a scheduled monument.[
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Location and description
The site is above sea level, on a hill at the heads of two tributaries of the River Ottery.[ Warbstow Bury Warbstow & District Community Online, accessed 17 April 2017.] There are views to Lundy Island and Dartmoor.
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.[ Cornwall's Archaeological Heritage. The Historic Environment Unit, Cornwall County Council, 2003. Page 49.]
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.[
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Pillow mound
In the centre of the fort is a medieval pillow mounds: a rectangular mound, or pillow mound, about long, wide and high. It is known as "The Giant's Grave" or "King Arthur's Grave".[
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