thesweetcheat wrote:
Hello and welcome!
Of course there is always something obvious that we miss, all I could think was the 'tump' the children would sledge down in the winter in Bath, and then the word tumulus came to mind. The Romans used it to describe a small lump on the landscape....Tump is a mound, usually artificial, the word appears quite a lot in Herefordshire (Wormelow Tump, Aston Tump, etc) and sometimes gets applied to mottes.
I think it must also be related to Twmpa, the Welsh name of one of the peaks in the Black Mountains - the English version is the more Viz-friendly Lord Hereford's Knob. Twmpa is pronounced "Tumpa" or "Toompa".
"The word tumulus is Latin for 'mound' or 'small hill" according to Wikipedia...