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Sentence Examples To the south are a stone circle, a cairn, two standing stones, and a large burial cist. The path veers off to the right to bring you to the summit of Hindscarth, marked with a large cairn. 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. Head east now over a broad whaleback to the cairn at 829m, the summit of Brown Cow Hill. Return again to the ridge cairn and go right, then bear right, away from the valley leading straight down. The only person not in black is a child making a nest of stones near a cairn of rocks. It is in very good condition with a round cairn 8 m. in diameter revetted by a kerb of coarse walling, and a partially infilled chamber. It is a grassy bump amongst other grassy bumps and is marked with a small cairn. Return to the cairn and carry on up to the North Peak, where you can look down over the buttresses. After half a mile cross the expansive plateau to a high level lochan and the summit cairn. The travellers and their guide came to the last ridge that rose between them and the summit, where they could see a tumbled cairn of stones. An entertaining tight-rope walk, especially where the ridge narrows considerably for its final few feet to the summit cairn. The royal visitor's final duty was to lay the final stone to a cairn built outside the main entrance and to unveil a commemorative plaque. There are several hillocks, but the actual summit has a good cairn to reassure you that you have indeed reached the top! It soon became apparent that the row of large stones had defined the edge of a stone cairn covering a boat burial. A chambered burial cairn known as Maeshowe is also being examined for potential damage as part of the study. A Neolithic long cairn of a previously unknown design has been discovered at Berstness on the Orcadian island of Westray. This presumable grave had then been covered with a stone cairn which also overlay some of the phase 1 carvings on the large quarried slab. A moss-covered cairn topped with a faded prayer flag tied to a branch, it had been carefully garlanded with flowers by passing nomads. Much of the known early history of the cairn terrier, like that of the Skye terrier, centers on the island of Skye. Show More Sentences They were located at one end of a stone burial cist, which was covered with a cairn. That stone-heap on a west-facing slope, is it scree, or a cairn, or the remains of a house? Cross marshy ground to a cairn, and after 300 yards you will reach the trig point on top of Auchineden Hill. A bouldery summit with a large cairn looms large, fooling many into believing this is the summit. A Land-Rover track past Swordland Lodge branches left, down a brae and past a cairn, through a gateway into Tarbet. From here the ridge broadens out in a wide sweep all the way to the huge cairn on Carn Eighe. Stacking large slabs on one another against a spine of uprights within a revetment wall, seems a very effective way to create an illusion of a well built and solid cairn. This three-venue show documents temporary and permanent work at locations across the country based on the cairn, a pile of stones used as a memorial or trail marker. A Spitfire propeller has been restored and mounted on a cairn of Cornish granite and will be displayed inside the entrance of RAF Portreath in Cornwall next month. The ice-encrusted cairn eventually appeared through the gloom and I was glad to retrace my steps downhill to a little niche where I could find some semblance of shelter. The first, which apparently looked like my old cairn terrier Geordie, he bought to give to me, but later gave it spontaneously to his Aunt for no real discernible reason. Beyond the col, the track becomes steeper and you have to work a little harder to reach the summit of Mid Hill at 422m with its prehistoric burial cairn and view indicator. Near the lake named for him in central Alberta, not far from the homestead where he raised his nine children, a stone cairn will honour his extraordinary life. Head NE from the summit cairn to pick up the bulldozed track called Morton's Way and follow this along the NE ridge and down to a col below the Hill of Glenroads. Creevykeel is classified as a full-court tomb and shows a low line of kerbstones around the exterior of the cairn, with larger orthostats lining the court. I noticed a cairn of rocks piled up at the start of a rough side path. Stacking large slabs on one another against a spine of uprights within a revetment wall seems a very effective way to create an illusion of a well built and solid cairn. They were to be created from local limestone, sandstone and gritstone and each cairn was to feature a spiral design of dry stone walls emanating outwards. Mountaineers could take a compass bearing from the summit cairn which would lead them to the first pole at the top of Gardyloo Gully. A cairn, Carnedd Arthur, was erected at the site and was still standing as late as 1850, but no longer exists. Show More Sentences The remains of 350 men, women and children were buried in the dunes behind the beach and a small cairn and monument marks the site. In Scotland, it is traditional to carry a stone up from the bottom of a hill to place on a cairn at its top. Hermes argued so skillfully that he ended up buried under a heap of pebbles, and this was the first cairn. In the hills to the north of Borve, there is a large chambered cairn, sited in a prominent position. Three of the stones, visible within the cairn mound, are thought to be from the stone circle of that time. Parc Cwm long cairn is maintained by Cadw, the Welsh Government's historic environment division. Parc Cwm long cairn is one of six chambered tombs discovered on Gower and one of 17 in what is commonly known as Glamorgan. At Parc Cwm long cairn a variety of mortuary practices was evident and the deliberate ordering of skeletal parts noticeable. The cairn consisted of an earthen mound with a surrounding ditch 28 metres in circumference and over 2 metres tall. Although most cairns discovered in the area are round, a ring cairn or cairn circle exists on Gelli Mountain. The holt is built under tree roots or a rocky cairn, more common in Scotland. The long, stalled cairn, built of local stone, was once a communal burial place for the bones of an ancient community. Despite the peaked profile the summit is wide enough for a sizeable cairn surrounded by a small level area. The summit is marked by a cairn standing on the brink of the northern face. The top of the fell lies toward the western end of the summit plateau, marked by a huge sprawling cairn. The top of Lord's Seat is a smooth grassy dome, the summit being marked by the meeting point of ruined fences and a small cairn. The highest point lies a little way out onto the northern spur at the top of Grey Crag, marked by a cairn. An Ordnance Survey triangulation column stands beside a cairn and windshelter. The summit of Great Gable is strewn with boulders and the highest point marked by a rock outcrop set with a cairn. This cairn was erected in 1876 by two brothers named Westmorland to mark what they considered to be the finest view in the Lake District. Show More Sentences The highest rocky knoll can be identified by an Ordnance Survey triangulation column beside a large cairn, both standing out from the turf. Its curving summit ridge contains three small tops, each of which is marked by a cairn. The highest point carries not so much a cairn as a rearrangement of some loose rock at the apex of the pyramid. The summit of the fell carries a unique construction, a combined slate platform and cairn. The summit of Swirl How is marked by a fine cairn on a stony top, built close to the Greenburn edge of the ridge. It is not uncommon for the circle to contain a ring cairn and cremation remains. Jeremy lives in Connecticut with his wife Kathryn and cairn terrier Carrie. At home, she has a cairn terrier named Lilly as well as two cats, Spooky and Dori. The highest point is marked with a large, solidly built cairn atop which sits an Ordnance Survey trig point. In Scotland nearly every place has got a memorial cairn, sign-boards and pull-ins. Three years later her cairn terrier was diagnosed with the same complaint. These physical survey mark cairn systems are the basis for national survey grids to interconnect individual land survey measurements for entire nations. Cists are often to be found in the centre of a cairn circle although some appear solitary which could be the result of the loss of an original slight mound. Between this cairn and the top, in a shallow valley, lies a small tarn. The undercarriage, together with a wooden cross and memorial cairn lies on the top of the ridge with the rest of the wreckage spread down Broad Slack. A small cairn on the highest craggy outcrop marks the highest point. The main top is marked by a cairn set amid an area of stones. There is another prominent cairn at the top of the north east ridge. The second phase of construction consisted of a raising in height of the cairn and contained a large cist considered as Early Bronze Age, however, no human remains were found. There is a 2nd or 3rd millennium BC chambered cairn, an Iron Age promontory fort and the remains of other prehistoric settlement dating from the Bronze Age nearby. Show More Sentences Both leaders were killed in the battle, Donald Ban is said to have been buried in a large cairn near the river, close to where the silver chain was found. Finely made and decorated Unstan ware pottery links the inhabitants to chambered cairn tombs nearby and to sites far afield, including Balbrindi and Eilean Domhnuill. The stones that remained were built into a cairn to honour the dead. The group took what shelter they could find in a circular cairn, got the man into his sleeping bag, into a survival bag and then under the fabric of the tent. Examples from Classical Literature He carted away the interesting land-mark and broke up the cairn into road metal. In a cist discovered in 1790, under a large cairn in the parish of Kilbride, the skeleton lay with its head to the east. There a covenant is made between the aramaean and the Hebrew, and a cairn of stones is piled up to commemorate the fact. In a somewhat similar example at Coolback, Fermanagh, the remains of the elliptical cairn are still visible. We can go no further till we find an unrifled cairn burial answering to Homeric descriptions. The cairn and tumulus, the cist and cinerary urn, all occur accompanied with contemporary relics. A river cairn is a solid pile of stonework, with, perhaps, a pole in the centre. In 1803 Liechtenstein noted the cairn-worship, and was told that a renowned Hottentot doctor of old times rested under the cairn. Build up the cairn, ye active youths, for victory is with us. Each man, by Charles's order, carried a stone to lay on Manfred's cairn. It was last rung in 2002 with Winnie Todd, the last town bell ringer, commemorating the installation of the bell at the cairn. Here I dragged up the dugout, hiding it well within the vegetation, and with some loose rocks built a cairn upon the beach to mark my cache. Next, they came to masses and fragments of naked rock heaped confusedly together, like a cairn reared by giants in memory of a giant chief. Then I widened my cairn below, so that I could stand firmly before springing upon the pinnacle with which I completed it. If he had ever raised a cairn above the telegraph instrument no sign of it remained now. The dogs came leaping along, and whole flocks of wild-fowl flew over the cairn, where blackberry-bushes were hanging round the old stones. Our route now bears to the right past a memorial seat and a cairn before we reach Hankow Road. Clawbonny and Bell walked to the cairn with picks in their hands. Clawbonny and Bell, armed with their pickaxes made for the cairn. He would begin to-morrow with the cairn for the rock-plants. Show More Sentences In a cairn on the point Fitzjames placed a brief record, and that is all. The remainder pushed on to Cape Herschel, and left a record in a cairn. Presently there loomed before him, gleaming in the moonlight, the cairn. But father has just lived in his own house of cairn Ferris all his life. After this, the Achaeans pile him a cairn and hold games in his honour. When his body and armour had been burned to ashes, we raised a cairn, set a stone over it, and at the top of the cairn we fixed the oar that he had been used to row with. Find more words! 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