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Cairn

Cairn, unclassified

What is recorded here

Thirty metres above a falling waterfall, a small oval of fist-sized stones still marks the place where the stream bends. Locals believe people dumped spare rock there while building houses in the valley beside it, reducing ancient mystery to domestic labour. That is more likely, and more interesting, because ordinary life can leave behind shapes that look like ceremony.
Situated above the valley of a stream on the S side at the point where it turns from SW-NE to NE-SW and c. 30m above a waterfall (H c. 30m). This is an oval cairn (dims 4.1m E-W; 3.2m N-S; H 0.3m at W to 0.7m at E) of fist-sized stones with a thin grass covering thought locally to be left over from the construction of houses in a little N-S valley immediately to N, which is quite likely. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September, 2016

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