
Looking down from Eype Down to the south.
Image credit: Mike Rowland 17/09/09
Looking down from Eype Down to the south.
Looking up from the A35 road to the south east.
This is a very prominent hill, almost iconic in this part of Dorset. It can be seen from many places and the addition of the trees, during the first world war, makes it all the more visible.
Although the modern name is 19th century, after the reverend John Colmer the land owner. The original name was Sigismund’s Berg, which gives the name to the adjacent village of Symondsbury.
Cope thinks it the centre piece of a sacred river valley, the rivers Brit, Simene and Asker converge nearby.