The tump
The Tump (or The Mount) of Lewes , northeast of Brighton is what is known as Harvest Hill, the more famous equivalent of which is Silbury Hill . The Tump is located near Mountfield Road in East Sussex , England . It stands next to a former monastery, the train station and a row of salt pans (now a soccer field). It is a 15 m high artificial chalk hill about 45 m in diameter covered with lawn. A spiral path winds around the hill.
A number of theories have been put forward to explain the phenomenon. The limited archaeological investigation revealed that the hill is prehistoric. There is a post hole at the top of the hill, and every Easter Christians come and put a large cross in this hole. Shortly afterwards the Gentiles come and remove the cross. The Tump stands on an old sea coast, which was formed by a now silted lagoon.
See also
literature
- Alastair Whittle: Sacred mound, holy rings: Silbury Hill and the West Kennet Palisade enclosures, a later Neolithic complex in north Wiltshire (Oxford, Oxbow Books 1997). Oxbow monograph 74.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 52 '8.7 " N , 0 ° 0' 37.7" E