What is the meaning of Cairn?

(n.) A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark or to arrest attention, as in surveying or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc.
(n.) A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.

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