Hi Hayley, the pyramid in Tiverton is pretty impressive – I didn’t know about that one. I guess people were buried in pyramid tombs because they were status symbols and because of Egyptomania.

There are many pyramids in Britain – I couldn’t include them all! And – at least as far as I know! – that pyramid isn’t a tomb.

Hi Joan, the Tor is a natural feature, but there is a lot of folkore and mythology associated with it. Some claim it was King Arthur’s Isle of Avalon. Others view it as the entrance to the Welsh otherworld, associating it with Gywn Ap Nudd, seen as lord of the otherworld and, later, as king of the fairies.

Hi Gill, I had vaguely heard of this legend. But there are so many strange and fascinating pyramid tombs in England that it would have been impossible to include them all in the post.

Hi Glyn, his pyramid tomb is a tetrahedron, meaning a three-sided pyramid, so it may have been meant as a symbol of the Holy Trinity. But it’s also almost certainly true that the pyramid would have been inspired by Rackett’s antiquarian interests. And, yes, it’s probable that an antiquarian gent of that period would have been influenced by the Egyptomania prevalent in England at that time.