About the Cuman barrows
Many archives, hand-drawn maps proves that some 40 000 cuman barrows were standing on the Great Hungarian Plain. These barrows are significant in many respects, such as landscape, archaeology and botany. Some of them are attached to historical events, legends, believes, monuments and other ethnographic curiosities.
Unfortunately, they rapidly turn to be truncated, featureless barrows because of timbering and building-up.
Barrow of Sáp
Sáp was a village located around the barrow called "Sáp-halom" on the fields of Szentes and Szegvár. According to traditions it was named after a warrior called Sáp who died in a battle against the Turkish troops. In 1730 astronomer Sámuel Mikoviny made his angular measurements here so this is a memorial place of Geographic too. On the top of the barrow a board reminds his memories.
Approaching
The barrow can be found by the road from Szentes to Szegvár on the left.
The cache
You can find the cache on the top of the barrow. Size: 12x9x6 cm. Please hide it with care!!
On the top you can calibrate your GPS to 97 m.