When I was last there a shepherd had just accomplished the feat of getting his flock of down sheep through the gate, and as they raced
along in a big bunch after the manner of their kind, with bells tinkling, and tearing eagerly at this fresh sample of pasture that grew in
the moat, he was taking a well-earned leisure on the bank, his coat and crook and dog beside him, and in sociable mood.
"Yes, zur, it's a turr'ble big mound, vor zart'n. A nashun sight of volks come yer to look at'n; I doan't take much notice of her myself,
but I've heerd my feyther tell as they druv a hole into her innards onc't, an' vound zummat or awther."
(Round about Wiltshire. A. G. Bradley 1907)

I take your point that its not a great place to see the Sun rise/set, mind. I think its more the "eye goddess" bit that gave it its solar name. The Sun has been connected with the eye at some stage in the history of virtually every culture.