The name “Hastings” leads us further into this subject, for it is also thought that the place-name Hastings, today a popular seaside town, takes its name from a Germanic-speaking tribe, possibly connected to the Saxons or the Jutes, as I have already implied. In Old English the name is written as Hæstingas, and the precise etymology of this name is unknown, although I have some ideas. Main text continues after the long photo description and photo below. 

Photo below: the structure referred to by some as the Great Pyramid of Hastings. This hill is the thing upon which the modern castle is built. This structure was talked about originally on YouTube, with researchers such as Paul Cook discussing it, although I am unsure who originally noticed it or called it a pyramid. I do not personally think it is a pyramid, but Paul Cook’s comments about the similarities of this site to sites in Malta are interesting, particular with regard to the large semicircular (ish) brick wall against the side of the hill (to left of centre in the photo below), which does indeed to me look akin to a similar massive, arched tunnel structure in Malta. Note I marked out the numberplates in the photo below to protect the privacy of whoever was parking there. There are numerous other things that I will comment about this site above the photo after the photo below (a different photo to the photo directly below):

Another curious thing is that there is a place in southwestern France known as Hastingues, in Basque: Hastinga. This may also relate to the same tribal name, although it is a long way from southern England, and lies in the part of France that at some point in the part was a part of the traditional territory of the Aquitane language influence, Aquitaine being a language likely connected to Basque in some way. (Main text continues after long photo description and photo, both below). 

Photo below: a close up of a part of the “Great Pyramid of Hastings”. I do indeed think that the site is ancient in some way. See that square shaped hole on the rockface in the photo below? There are very similar square holes in other sandstone rock formations which I have been to, and noted before: including on the side of a stone at Brimham Rocks in Yorkshire, where there are several such “square holes”, as well as for example one of the rock formations near Tunbridge Wells, known as Bowels Rocks, which is far nearer to Hastings than Brimham Rocks is (note that this is not the same rock formation near Tunbridge Wells as that known as the Toad Rock, of which a photo is included further down this article, with a description. Paul Cook seems to imply that he thinks these square holes would have had electrical circuitry, although I am more inclined to think that their shape is relevant to the interaction between the rock (and its quartz) and vibration/sound. Note also the steep stone steps in the photo below in the top left of the image (unrelated to the stone steps and rock-cut steps I have discussed in other publications).

There is no normal way for me to say this, but Hastingues in France is also known for a giant snail living in a cave, with hairy tentacles covered in slime. I know that France is known for its eating of snails, but yeah, the giant hairy tentacle snail, known as the Lou Carcolh, is on another level. This does relate to language interestingly, the name Lou Carcolh is related to Spanish caracol - snail, itself being possibly a word of pre-Indo-European and prehistoric origin. We know that in prehistoric times, the people in this part of France did make cave paintings, and so the caves were spiritual sites for them. Cro-Magnon is also not that far from Hastingues, and Cro-Magnon is famous for its findings of the “cro-magnon man” and associated findings. One of these findings includes a shell necklace, so clearly these ancient people placed symbolic value on both caves and snails. Therefore: could the name Lou Carcolh, being possibly connected to a pre-Indo-European word, and the legend about the Lou Carcolh be remembered from these very ancient times? According to Wikipedia, men would flirt with women in Hastingues by saying to them “The Lou Carcolh will catch you!”... how charming (not).

Some curious place-names around Hastings (in England) of possibly ancient origin:

.Pett - a curious place-name to the east of Hastings. Possibly related to “Pit-” place-names in the “Pictish” part of Scotland, such as Pitlochry. My own research leads me to believe that this word could be pre-Indo-European and have wide reaching connections to other language families. There may be a similarity to Etruscan pes, which possibly means “land”, and as I have published elsewhere, to Proto-Afro-Asiatic *fit- “land” (1), to Kallawaya piti - “to cultivate”, and to Proto-Uralic *paše - “to grow” (2). Whilst a connection with English “pit” cannot be ruled out in the place-name Pett, the etymology of Pett makes a lot more sense to me if we consider a possibly much older origin, with a meaning more connected to where things are planted or cultivated, to fertility and to land.

.Glyne Gap - the first word in this curious place-name shows a correspondence to Irish and Scottish Gaelic gleann - valley, glen, to Manx glion - glen, and Welsh glyn and glân - glen or valley. “Glyne” is also the name of the river that comes out elsewhere in Sussex. Whilst others have seen a connection to Anglo-Saxon glind - “enclosure”, I personally think that a connection to the Celtic and/or pre-Celtic words like gleann is equally likely. As I have noted elsewhere many times, I also see a similarity to Aurgjelding (a West Norwegian dialect) gleinn/głeiɲɲ - “opening in a forest” (I also discuss this word elsewhere including in an article this year on another website to that you are on). This could be a root word of pre-Indo-European origin, and so its presence in this place-name could indicate that the origin language was either Celtic or pre-Celtic. It is also quite possible that “glynde” had a specific meaning in ancient Kent, and hence was applied individually to the River Glynde and to Glynde Gap. The second element, “gap”, is another perhaps pre-Indo-European word, related to Old Norse gapa, English “gap” and “gape”. As an ancient place-name element, this root also occurs in Jutland in Denmark, for example in the place-name Nymindegab south of the Ringkøbing Fjord. There are other “gap” names in the Hastings area, and on the Isle of Weight which was also reputedly settled by the Jutes. I also discuss this word "gap" in an article I hope which will be published in Silly Linguistics later this month, concerning Mongolian, and have discussed an aspect to the connection in question before in different details. 

Below is a photo of Toad Rock, followed by its description and other information.

Photo above: The “Toad Rock” on Tunbridge Wells common in Kent. I recently briefly mentioned this “Toad Rock” but not in name in article 72: on this website, where I also mentioned Brimham Rocks and also the phenomena of these “toad” and other rock formations, or statues, in detail. But I have more details here. There is also for example the story of the story of the Aberlleiniog Toad from Anglesey in Wales, the story of a giant, and dangerous toad. I do believe that Toad Rock in the photo above, with a good example of a English animistic name, might be some kind of statue, have been influenced by man in some way, or may have more mythical reasons as to why it is so specifically associated with a toad. To me, it does look like a severely-degraded statue, but this is pure speculation of course. The Anglesey folklore regarding the Aberlleiniog Toad does, however, imply further that on some deep level in Britain mythology, there is a concept of giant toads, and I do wonder if this in some way does relate to the Ogdoad from Ancient Egyptian mythology, themselves associated with a primeval world, largely beyond our own sight, memory and consciousness. Thank you so very much for reading this article, I hope it was intriguing.