| I grew up in some of the more remote parts of Scotland with undiluted access to history and myth amid standing stones, cairns, tombs and ruins. |
| Elation was to glimpse limp prayer flags and rough cairns with goat horns that marked the pass. |
| The new quarry will destroy the undesignated, unforested eskers and also the burial cairns. |
| Now, their pyramid-shaped middens, or mussel-shell dumps, stand along the coastline like memorial cairns. |
| It dens down in rocky cairns, under tree roots, sometimes even in the disused eyries of a golden eagle. |
| There are a few cairns, but do not rely on them, as they are widely spaced and small. |
