wha?!?!?!

Looks like a sculpture Andy Goldsworthy might have made.

http://www.sculpture.org.uk/image/504816331403

very nice.

My tuppence fwiw...

Why is it still so tall when all the other cairns I've seen with stone work exposed on the moors up north are a lot flatter?

Where is the detritus that seems to form between the stones on the cairns I've seen?

Why is it so "clean"?

I know some people long ago used to stick dead people under piles of stones. But for what other reasons have cairns been built? Landmarks to find your way in the snow? Something for sheep to cuddle up to? Arty boredom of shepherds?

Sorry. I'm not in touch with my mountainous roots to my eternal shame. I was just wondering how you can ever date such things and whether their purpose could show up in the design. Anyone got enough patience for a Cairns 101?

Also, isn't it possible or likely that cairns get robbed for walls then built up again from the fallen down walls that robbed from them etc according to local whim or to further the (to me, mysterious) purposes wot cairns have.

I am not an expert on cairns, don't get me wrong, but to me this looks like someone has taken part of the wall behind down, notice how the wall looks rather shorts of stones on the left hand side..and tried to build a cairn...it does not have the look of a cairn...and it is strange how all the stones look clean, both on the "cairn" and the wall... almost looks like it was built yesterday..i may be wrong...but i don't think or believe this is prehistoric...it may be a cairn...but it is a modern cairn.

EH?

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/40650

<This stone came from the wall beside the cairns, which I am building as 'England's Largest Sculpture'. The soft sandstone has many common fossils but is unusual in having inside out cupmarks among them.>

oh my god!!!!