Largin Castle

Largin Castle is a contour hillfort and scheduled monument in Cornwall, England, presumed to date from the Iron Age.

Largin Castle is situated approximately 4.5 kilometres west of Dobwalls, on a hill spur above the north-facing southern slope of the Fowey valley, at an elevation of 130 meters above sea level. It is described in the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland as having a complex shape occupying an area of 1.8 hectares . The hillfort has an outer rampart and ditch enclosure with an entrance at its south. Within this, a smaller inner oval enclosure, also defined by ramparts and ditch, is offset to the north and occupies some 3/4 of the interior. To the north and east of the hillfort, the valley drops away steeply to the Fowey and to a tributary stream, both at circa 50 meters elevation; to the south-west the land rises slowly to a local maximum of 193 meters at a distance of 690 meters . A linear earthwork thought to be associated with the hillfort is found at the south-west, at the 190 meters contour, running for approximately 850 meters first due north, and then north-north-west.

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