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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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A bouldery summit with a large cairn looms large, fooling many into believing this is the summit.
Cross marshy ground to a cairn, and after 300 yards you will reach the trig point on top of Auchineden Hill.
It is a grassy bump amongst other grassy bumps and is marked with a small cairn.
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.
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.

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