drewbhoy wrote: Don't know about down your way but I find it quite strange that lots of 'modern' cairns e.g. those built with stones and cement seem to appear on hills quite a lot up here, especially those dedicated to landowners and various lords and ladies in the 1800's onwards. Some of these people probably deserve their memorial but others are probably guilty of destroying circles and cairns etc., so somewhat ironic to have a cairn built to remember them.
The big "beacon" cairn on Dunkery Beacon (Exmoor) has one of those, if that's the kind of thing you mean.
http://www.themodernantiquaria[...]ost/103160/dunkery_beacon.html
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