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bawn79 Oct 16, 2006 14:12:23
Replying to FourWinds

FourWinds wrote:
bawn79 wrote:
Also would be interested in the cairns on Keadeen, its looks huge from the ground and I meant to climb it but never got around too it.
It does look big from below doesn't it. I think it's some atmospheric optical illusion though :-( It's about 25m in diameter and 2m high above the peat level. I would imagine that the peat is about 1.5m deep up there. Some of the impression of size comes from the two walls that have been built from the cairn as shelters. It was nice to see that the trig point hasn't been stuck on the top of it, too. Photos later (with loadsa cloud and no view.)
I wonder is there really an optical illusion attached to putting cairns on top of mountains and if so could this be part of the reasoning behind putting them up there.

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FourWinds Oct 16, 2006 16:34:34
Replying to bawn79

bawn79 wrote:
I wonder is there really an optical illusion attached to putting cairns on top of mountains and if so could this be part of the reasoning behind putting them up there.
Well, there are certainly odd things to do with positioning. If you look at the OS map (62 I think) you can see a cairn to the south of the hill. This is placed beyond the highest point. When this is done it is usually so that it can still be seen from the valley below. However, in the case of this southern cairn it is placed so that it appears to be on the top of the southern hilltop when viewed from the cairn at the top of Keadeen (if you see what I mean).

The cairns on Seahan & Seefin look absolutely massive when viewed from around Brittas. P'raps there is something going on.

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