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) --
He was cairn, often in the face of considerable provocation.
The heather is now beginning to grow again on the scorched hillside where the memorial cairn stands.
Returning it to the place "from whence it cairn" could not be more clear or precise.
These are mainly mountainous areas, where the foxes, instead of using earths, use cairns, where gassing is not practical.
The building of the cairn was a local community initiative.
On the opposite side we have the dint of headstrong resolution and here we have the cairn sagacity.
Whilst excavating the cairns, banks and roundhouses, many of us found that context sheets and scale drawings were often inadequate means of describing the subtleties of construction we were encountering.
But here was another cairn to investigate!
