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Cairn

Cairn, clearance cairn
Cairn
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Clearance cairns mark human tool use and changed ground, yet the hidden Kye example preserves a much older shape. It is a subrectangular mound of fieldstones and larger boulders, about nine metres long, five and a half metres wide at the west end and half to one metre high. The official label reduces a strange place to a farm chore; the measured form resists that reduction.
Towards the top of an E-facing slope. Subrectangular cairn (dims. c. 9m E-W; 5.5m N-S at W; 4m E-W at E; H 0.5-1m) of fieldstones with some larger boulders (dims. c. 0.5m) set in the cairn at the perimeter, especially at W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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Photo: Kieron Gribbon - Outdoor Writer & Photographer · All rights reserved