- A
cairn is a human-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 Scottish...
- The
Cairn Terrier is a
terrier breed originating in the
Scottish Highlands and
recognised as one of Scotland's
earliest working dogs. The name “
Cairn Terrier”...
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resemblance to an
upturned bowl.
Related terms include cairn circle,
cairn ring, howe, kerb
cairn, tump and
rotunda grave. Bowl
barrows were
created from...
- The Life
Cairn is a type of
public memorial built around the
world for
species rendered extinct by
human activity. It
takes the form of a
cairn. The first...
- Look up
cairn in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
cairn is a man-made pile of stones.
Cairn may also
refer to:
Cairn O'
Mounth (Scottish Gaelic: Càrn...
- The
Cairn of
Barnenez (also:
Barnenez Tumulus,
Barnenez Mound; in
Breton Karn Barnenez; in French:
Cairn de
Barnenez or
Tumulus de Barnenez) is a Neolithic...
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number of
mountains in the
British Isles have the name
Cairn Hill
Cairn Hill (Antarctica)
Cairn Hill, Northumberland, one of the
Cheviot Hills, England...
- The
Clava cairn is a type of
Bronze Age
circular chamber tomb
cairn,
named after the
group of
three cairns at
Balnuaran of Clava, to the east of Inverness...
- Miosgán Meadhbha,
anglicized Miosgan Meva and also
called Maeve's
Cairn, is a
large cairn on the
summit of
Knocknarea in
County Sligo, Ireland. It is thought...
- 1945 –
World War II: The
photograph Raising the Flag on the Three-Country
Cairn (pictured) was
taken after German troops withdrew to
Norway at the end of...
