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What is a cairn?

What is a cairn? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.
  2. A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, to guide travelers on land or at sea, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc.
  3. A cairn terrier.
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That stone-heap on a west-facing slope, is it scree, or a cairn, or the remains of a house?
From here the ridge broadens out in a wide sweep all the way to the huge cairn on Carn Eighe.
A Land-Rover track past Swordland Lodge branches left, down a brae and past a cairn, through a gateway into Tarbet.
Cross marshy ground to a cairn, and after 300 yards you will reach the trig point on top of Auchineden Hill.
He proposes to build a stone cairn six or seven feet high and 12 to 14 feet across, either inside the fold or next to it.
It is a grassy bump amongst other grassy bumps and is marked with a small cairn.

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