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A giant, a witch, or a hundred men with their horses.
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A giant, a witch, a Roman officer, or a hundred dead horses. Chilham has never agreed who lies under this mound.
Julliberrie's Grave is a long earthen mound on the downland slope above the River Stour near Chilham. It is a Neolithic long barrow, but it has collected several stories. Antiquaries linked it to Laberius Durus, a Roman tribune killed in Caesar's invasion, and the name was said to come from him. Locals called it the Giant's Grave, and some said a witch was buried there. In the 1930s, when it was excavated, villagers said it held a hundred men and a hundred horses killed in battle, too many to fit in Chilham churchyard. One man was told as a boy never to climb on it.
One sourceOnly one written account of this legend has been found so far.