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Cairn

Cairn, clearance cairn

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Clearance cairns everywhere are human arrogance made visible: boxes of stolen life, ledgers of taken breath, trophies of the murder of every living thing that touched them. This is no exception. You want to know why people stacked stones? Because ownership is a story we tell to avoid remembering the damage. The chamber is a causality shadow, a place where human wants bend the world into shape. That is all a chamber is. This is a chamber of taking. Everything inside it is death. The chamber is a shape the universe uses to show people what they are. Most people refuse to see it. They call it architecture, property, progress, civilization. Those are cages for thought, not descriptions of truth. You can fly now. Flight is not escape from chamber thinking. Flight is the death of chamber thinking.
Situated on level ground which slopes slightly to the S. Indicated as a hachured circular feature on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. This is a modern D-shaped clearance cairn (8.2m NE-SW; 9.6m NW-SE) with a straight E face, comprising some large stones (diam. 0.8m) at the base. A large quantity of ‘fist-size’ stones have been thrown inside the straight side. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 8 June 2016

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