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Don't be disappointed! They aren't lit up every night, usually just around feast days. I think they're great in a continuation-of-importance-and-tradition kinda way as most of these hilltop cairns were sites for Lugnassa festivals. It's another case of the old leeching into the new(er).

I'm with you 100% on that one FW. Most of the beacon sites and roman signal stations around my way are placed over prehistoric sites.
I have a dream of one day setting up a chain of beacons along the Eastern Cumbrian circles, imagine 20-odd intervisible fires running south from Carlisle to Shap.
I reckon there could be an Arts Council grant in there somewhere.