What is recorded here

Prideaux Castle is an Iron Age hillfort perched atop a 133-metre conical hill near Luxulyan, Cornwall. Four ramparts once encircled a level, elliptical space about one hundred metres across, but trees have swallowed the northern and eastern walls while cattle now graze the pinkish stone floor. The name may descend from Cornish words for hill and fort, yet the French spelling did not appear until Plantagenet times. What is certain is that people built defences here before written history, then vanished without leaving a single dressed stone behind.

Prideaux Castle is shown as a archaeological place on the public map of Cornwall. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.

Prideaux Castle is a 16th-century artillery fort built by Sir Richard Grenville, a prominent Cornish military leader, to defend the Fowey estuary. It is important as an example of early modern coastal defence architecture in England.

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