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

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

The Neolithic tomb, or "cairn", at Hazleton North in Gloucestershire has two L-shaped chambers, one facing north and the other south.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2021

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

He’d given me straightforward directions that he simply hadn’t had time to explain: “The Old Man,” I realized, was what the locals called the bog boy, and his grave was the cairn.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs