Yarnbury Castle

Yarnbury Castle, Wiltshire Photo © Andrew Smith, 25 june 2007

The pre-Roman hillfort hill-fort consists of two banks separated by a deep ditch. A trig point can be seen on the inner bank. The purple flower is wild thyme.

Fortified Hill-tops

Yarnbury lies about three miles to the west of Winterbourne Stoke in Wiltshire and is allocated to this division, being one of the largest and best of its kind. The area enclosed is about 20 acres, encircled by three valla and two or three ditches. The inner rampart rises at times to over 50 feet above the fosse. There are a number of entrances, but only those to the east and west are original, each being defended with outworks, the eastern gate by bastions similar to those at Maiden Castle and Badbury Rings.

British Castles by Charles H. Ashdown 1911