0 a small pile of stones made, especially on mountains, to mark a place or as a memorial (= an object to make people remember someone or something)
No trace of them remains today, although a cairn marking the location has been erected.
The cairn receives little attention in the literature.
There is no doubt that the cairn should be rebuilt today.
It now seemed pretty certain that a cairn of some sort had been seen and partly dismantled, but where exactly was it?
The cairn is a ruin, but fortunately most of the materials for its re-building are still present.
He visited many cairns, hoping to be the first to open them: inevitably, someone had been there before him.
This is why we cannot abandon words like 'pot', 'cairn', 'house', 'pit' and 'hearth' in favour of neologisms or morphological types.
But here was another cairn to investigate!
