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Cairn (other)
A cairn is a man-made pile of stones. Cairn may also refer to: Places * Cairn O' Mounth ( gd, Càrn Mhon, links=no), a high mountain pass in Aberdeenshire, Scotland * Cairn Toul (from the Gaelic ', "Hill of the barn"), the 4th highest mountain in Scotland and the 2nd highest point in the western massif of the Cairngorms * Cairnbaan ( gd, An Càrn Bàn, links=no), a village in Argyll and Bute, western Scotland. * Cairness House, a country house in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, built in the 1790s in the Neoclassical style * Cairneyhill, a small village near Dunfermline in west Fife, Scotland * Cairngaan, Wigtownshire, the southernmost settlement in Scotland * Cairnie Hill, a hill in the Ochils, in Fife, Scotland * Cairnlea, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne in Australia * (English: Cairnburgh More), one of the Treshnish Isles in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland * Cairnpapple Hill, a major Neolithic and Bronze Age ritual site in central lowland Scotland * Cairnryan ( sco, The Cairn, links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairn
A cairn is a man-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound. The word ''cairn'' comes from the gd, càrn (plural ). Cairns have been and are used for a broad variety of purposes. In prehistoric times, they were raised as markers, as memorials and as burial monuments (some of which contained chambers). In modern times, cairns are often raised as landmarks, especially to mark the summits of mountains. Cairns are also used as trail markers. They vary in size from small stone markers to entire artificial hills, and in complexity from loose conical rock piles to elaborate megalithic structures. Cairns may be painted or otherwise decorated, whether for increased visibility or for religious reasons. A variant is the inuksuk (plural inuksuit), used by the Inuit and other peoples of the Arctic region of North America. History Europe The building of cairns for various purposes goes back into prehistory in Eurasia, ranging in s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
