No trace of them remains today, although acairnmarking the location has been erected.
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Thecairnreceives little attention in the literature.
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There is no doubt that thecairnshould be rebuilt today.
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It now seemed pretty certain that acairnof some sort had been seen and partly dismantled, but where exactly was it?
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Thecairnis a ruin, but fortunately most of the materials for its re-building are still present.
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He visited many cairns, hoping to be the first to open them: inevitably, someone had been there before him.
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This is why we cannot abandon words like 'pot', 'cairn', 'house', 'pit' and 'hearth' in favour of neologisms or morphological types.
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But here was anothercairnto investigate!
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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.
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On the opposite side we have the dint of headstrong resolution and here we have thecairnsagacity.
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The building of thecairnwas a local community initiative.
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These are mainly mountainous areas, where the foxes, instead of using earths, use cairns, where gassing is not practical.
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Returning it to the place "from whence itcairn" could not be more clear or precise.
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The heather is now beginning to grow again on the scorched hillside where the memorialcairnstands.
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He wascairn, often in the face of considerable provocation.
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