These are also called Sheepherder's Cairns [click here].
A particularly nice one here.
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2 comments :
The comment for the photo is one I have heard for a large cairn field in Hallstead, NY: that they were built by sheep herders to pass the time!
They made the slightly more interesting claim that these cairns are restricted to places where sheep hearding occurred.
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