cairn
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.2|A cairn a mile east of Nine Standards Rigg in the Yorkshire Dales.
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- Subclass of
- trail blazing
- Material used
- stone
- Image
- 5210 - Near Eigergletscher Station.JPG
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- Commons category
- Cairns (rock stack landmarks)
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- Cairn
- OpenStreetMap tag
- man_made=cairn
- different from
- rock balancing
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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thumb|upright=1.2|A cairn a mile east of Nine Standards Rigg in the Yorkshire Dales.
A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound. The word cairn comes from the (plural ).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “cairn” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.