Please give them their correct name ...

I've also considered whether the stones have been worked - I've been active at this site for five years now - and suggest that they have simply been selected, rather than shaped. I built a copy of one of them on another hill, a couple of miles away, and this was the conclusion I came to. A year, or so, later I demolished the modern copy - there's a few photographs somewhere. I have also considered that the curricks were formerly ordered cairns, like these, and the pile of stones left is some kind of folk memory of same. (There's no way to test that theory).

An interesting factor that I discovered this summer is that the flat stones that make up the cairn have peculiar fossils. I've brought a couple of pieces of these rocks back to town and I had two of them in my briefcase - that rainy day near the Haymarket. I'll photograph them over the winter using my Praktica extension tubes, but the fossil shape is pretty exactly also the shape of the cairn ...