cairn
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One person would stay at the first cairn while another would try to locate the next cairn.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
Other sites from the same period in history are close by, and include a stone circle at Torbreck and chambered cairn at Culduthel in Inverness.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2023
In the video, a wilderness restoration ranger gently shoves over a cairn, which appears to be several feet high.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2023
I’ve been there myself, digging as deep as I could into the long and honorable history of my cairn terriers and Pomeranians.
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2021
The cairn was a little taller than me, long and narrow with a rectangular opening in one end, like a door, and it rose from the mud on a tussock of grass.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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