However, our landscape is scattered with cairns much older and much larger, constructed by the communities who lived, worked, and died there thousands of years ago. Prehistoric burial cairns take various forms and can date to the Neolithic (c. Walkers’ cairns are found on almost every hilltop, a demonstration of presence and achievement: “we walked here, we made it to the top”. Water Scott’s ‘The Bride of Lammermoor’.
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