cairn

• Archaeologists say that all the tombs in the complex would originally have been covered by an extensive stone cairn, which is no longer there.
• First, the causeways may have probably been made "during the construction of the tower with its central pole," (here the cairn is a habitable beacon, habitable on all hypotheses,) or, again, "perhaps at the time of its demolition" about which demolition we know nothing, except that the most of the stones are not now in situ. —  The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore
• In the latter case it was a curious fact that this wicked woman retained possession of Laugarness, near Reykjavik, which was part of her second husband Glum's property, to her dying day, and there, according to constant tradition, she was buried in a cairn which is still shown at the present time, and which is said to be always green, summer and winter alike. —  The story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga
• Here stood an emblem of the sun, and on the cairn was a sacred fire, which had been kept burning through the year. —  Our Holidays Their Meaning and Spirit; retold from St. Nicholas
• It is curious that the drift to leeward of the cairn, that is N.N.E., was quite soft, the snow all round and the drifts on either side being hard--exceptionally hard in fact. —  The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913

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