(Original headline: Mound points to prophecy )
Modern-day Pollards Hill is known more for its rows of white council houses than the mound of earth that gives it its name.
But this incline, which today is surrounded by buildings, could be a part of a prophecy that is drawn from London's landscape.
According to C E Street, the "hill top henge" is a key point in a pentagram which spans the whole of the capital's map.
In her book Earth Stars, the author writes: "Although it doesn't so far seem to have been officially recognised as an ancient monument, anyone with a keen eye for such things would immediately suspect that it might be.
"It's a roughly circular earthwork of irregular banks with a prominent mound at its highest and most northerly point.
"It may even have contained a stone circle at sometime in its history.
"Sadly, the only structure it now contains is a hideous concrete shelter that provides an unofficial gallery for the work of local graffiti artists."
Street goes onto draw lines between Pollards Hill and St Mary's Church in Beddington and St Mary's Church in Addiscombe, making a near equilateral triangle, which forms an important part of the pentagram.
Other nearby sites intersected by the lines of the diagram include Caesar's Camp on Wimbledon Common, St Leonard's Church in Streatham, St Anthony's Hospital and the top of Richmond Hill.
Using the pentagram as the starting point, Street then draws on religious and mystical doctrines from India and Tibet to come to the conclusion that London is a planetary chakra, and therefore a holy city.
Street also finds a lion, a unicorn and a vast dove "permanently em- blazoned upon the local landscape", adding to the theory that the city is revealing itself as the new Jerusalem.
The book was published in 1990, four years after when, according to the Hopi Indian prophesy, all the earth's sacred sites began to activate and when, according to Street, the main north-south axis of London's network came into direct alignment with the earth's magnetic north.
Meanwhile, more than 20 years later, the good denizens of Pollards Hill still probably think of the hill as nothing more than their local park.
