- 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...
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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
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”...
- 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...
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cairn is a
burial monument,
usually constructed during the Neolithic,
consisting of a
sizeable (usually stone)
chamber around and over
which a
cairn of...
- The
court cairn or
court tomb is a
megalithic type of
chambered cairn or
gallery grave.
During the period, 3900–3500 BC, more than 390
court cairns were...
- 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...
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Cairn Gorm (Scottish Gaelic: An Càrn Gorm) is a
mountain in the
Scottish Highlands. It is part of the
Cairngorms range and
wider Grampian Mountains. With...
- 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...
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Cairn India was an
Indian oil and gas
exploration and
production company,
headquartered in Gurgaon, India. The
company was
merged with
Vedanta Limited...
