List of tumps

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Reference excerpt

Tump means a hillock, mound, barrow or tumulus. The Welsh words twmp and Twmpath may be related. Although some may appear similar to glacial drumlins, for the most part they are man-made, e.g. remains from mineral extraction, burial mounds (tumuli and especially bowl barrows) or motte-and-bailey castle mounds. The following geographical features in the UK are referred to using the word:

Almondsbury Tump: a slight prominence near the top of the scarp, in open space near the Swan, Almondsbury, South Gloucestershire Barry's Hill Tump: a barrow in the civil parish of Leafield, Oxfordshire Battle Tump: a castle motte, Scheduled Ancient Monument, Lower Common, Gilwern, Monmouthshire Bettws Newydd tump: an early Norman motte-and-bailey tump in Monmouthshire Bledisloe Tump: a castle in Awre, Gloucestershire Brinklow Castle known locally as 'the Tump': a medieval castle in the village of Brinklow, Warwickshire Caple Tump: an earthwork reputed to be the remains of a castle motte in King's Caple, Herefordshire Castle Tump: an early 11th-century motte-and-bailey castle in Trecastle, Powys Castle Tump, Caerwent: site of a Roman villa in Monmouthshire Castle Tump, Dymock: a castle in Dymock, Gloucestershire Castle Tump Motte (see Glasbury Castle), Glasbury, Powys Castle Tump, Tenbury Wells: believed to be the remains of an early Norman motte-and-bailey castle near Burford, Shropshire and Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire Cole's Tump, an area of pillow mounds on the west side of Orcop Hill, Herefordshire, that overlooks the village of the same name Congrove Field and The Tumps: north of Bath (Bath and North East Somerset), possibly the site of mining activities in the past Crugyn Tump: castle mound/motte, Beguildy, Powys East Tump and West Tump: small (ca. 50m and 100m long respectively) tidal islands off the respective coasts of the Island of Grassholm Edmunds Tump: a hill near Grosmont in north-eastern Monmouthshire Hetty Pegler's Tump: a Neolithic burial mound near the village of Uley, Gloucestershire Knucklas Castle Mound: site of a castle near the battlefield of the Battle of Beguildy, Powys Llanthomas Castle Mound comprises the remains of a motte and ditch, near the village of Llanigon and the town of Hay-on-Wye Leigh Castle Tump: earthwork and buried remains of a medieval motte-and-bailey castle at Castle Green near Leigh, Worcestershire Loxidge Tump cairn: round cairn on the Offa's Dyke Path, Hatterrall Ridge, with Llanthony to one side and Llanveynoe the other; there are several other cairns nearby in general vicinity of Llanvihangel Crucorney Keynsham Humpy Tumps: site of open patches of grassland and bare rock, interspersed with blocks of scrub, alongside the Bristol to Bath railway line Maes Tump: an Iron Age hillfort in Somerset Monkey Tump: 12th-century motte castle in Tonteg, Rhondda Cynon Taf Nan Tow's Tump: a round barrow by the A46 near Oldbury-on-the-Hill, Gloucestershire Newcourt Tump: earthwork remains of a small motte-and-bailey castle 1 milenorth of Bacton, Herefordshire Newton Tump: remains of a motte-and-bailey castle 3 miles southeast of Clifford, Herefordshire Robin Hood's Tump (see under 'Buildings and structures'): prehistoric burial ground near Alpraham, Cheshire St Weonards Tump: immediately south of St Weonards churchyard, Herefordshire Slwch Tump: an Iron Age hill fort close to Brecon, Powys Stow Green Tump, also known as Castle Tump: remains of a castle near the village of St Briavels, Gloucestershire Swanborough Tump: a hillock in the parish of Manningford Abbots, Wiltshire, identified as the moot-place mentioned in the will of King Alfred Table Hill tump: in the Malvern Hills between North Hill and Sugarloaf Hill (Herefordshire–Worcestershire border) Tappa's Tump or "Tæppa's mound": burial mound near Taplow, Buckinghamshire "The Tump": ancient burial mound near Whittington, Worcestershire Tump Farm, Wilcrick: a farm near Wilcrick Hill, which was a hillfort in former Monmouthshire Tump Terret: mound marking the site of a small motte-and-bailey castle in Trellech, Monmouthshire Twmpath Castle, a motte-and-bailey castle in Rhiwbina, Cardiff Turkey Tump: on the ridge immediately north-west of Llanwarne, Herefordshire (SO504288) Wednesbury Tump (see 'Post-Medieval times'): Wednesbury, West Midlands Whittington Tump: central Worcestershire, a prehistoric religious site and location of a medieval castle Windmill Tump: a Neolithic burial site west of the village of Rodmarton, Gloucestershire Wormelow Tump: village in Herefordshire, location of the burial mound of King Arthur's son Amr See also

Burrow Mump: a mound at Burrowbridge in Somerset.

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Example 1 — a first encounter with List of tumps

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what List of tumps claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to List of tumps before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about List of tumps ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of List of tumps

In research: List of tumps appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses List of tumps in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: List of tumps is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Geography-related lists, Tumuli in the United Kingdom, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for List of tumps outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is List of tumps in simple terms?

Tump means a hillock, mound, barrow or tumulus. The Welsh words twmp and Twmpath may be related.

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