Mysterious Glastonbury West England

Approximately 40 miles due west of Stonehenge (and the nearby heaviest concentration of crop circles in the world) in the west of England, the village of Glastonbury looks like any other charming English countryside village until you notice the two hills overlooking the town. The first hill, shoots 500 feet straight up from a plain that was said to have been flooded at high tides until the Romans built drainage ditches and is referred to simply as the Tor. On top of the Tor is a small, now abandoned church known to locals as St. Michael's Chapel. The Tor itself is on public land (administered in England by the National Trust) with a trail leading to the chapel on top.

Legend has it that the Tor, which rose well above sea-level during the period when the surrounding marshes might have been flooded during high tides, might well have been the Isle of Avalon of Arthurian legend. Indeed at the foot of the hill is a well known as Chalice Well where it is said that the Holy Grail was hidden at one time. The Tor itself is said to be hollow inside, indicating that it may well have been a manmade pyramid in ancient times and indeed from the air the Tor does appear to reflect the terraces of what archeologists called the "step" pyramids that preceeded the Great Pyramids. That mankind could have erected such edifices in this part of the world is confirmed by Stonehenge about which little is still known and whose inner circle was erected at the same time as the Egyptian pyramids. In fact, Stonehenge was already a ruin when the Romans conquered England. Again local legend holds that Glastonbury was an ancient center for the Druids, an indication that something important to that mysterious religion might have been nearby, perhaps the Tor?