A massive erratic has been incorporated into the cairn. Before or after construction?
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Wow, another fine example of a using a massively oversized stone in a monument. Before, surely?
I would say before too, but the original ground level that the cairn is built on is well over a metre below the bottom of the stone. It's possible that it was dropped by the glacier on a pre-existing mound and this was why the builders picked the site, incorporating the erratic. I don't remember seeing an example of this practice before – maybe you do?
That's a head scratcher! Top erratic.
That's a fine trig too. I didn't know you had them over there (I'm not well travelled!). Are they on most hills like over this side?
Trigs everywhere, a lot plonked on cairns. The original Ordnance Survey pre-dates independence.
Lots of trigs on cairns here too. You have OS benchmarks as well?
A few stones have them here.
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