Cairn

Clearance destroyed two small chambers and buried quartz evidence while the largest mound survived beneath thick vegetation. The valley dropped away on every side, exposing the reef as a deliberate stage rather than a forgotten hill. Human hands built the stage, lived beside it, measured it with bones and balls of quartz, then nearly erased it for housing. What remains is not a complete monument but a witness: large enough to resist forgetting, damaged enough to prove the world still turns its back on what it does not understand.