cairn

(noun)

A human-made pile of stones.

Related Terms

  • barrow
  • cist
  • Smelt
  • civilization
  • metallurgy

Examples of cairn in the following topics:

  • Art of the Bronze Age

    • Burial of dead (which, until this period, had usually been communal) became more individual, with bodies being interred in barrows and cists covered with cairns.
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