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A typical clearance cairn from Eglinton Country Park in Scotland. A clearance cairn is an irregular and unstructured collection of fieldstones which have been removed from arable land or pasture to allow for more effective agriculture and collected into a usually low mound or cairn.
Fieldstone is a naturally occurring type of stone, which lies at or near the surface of the Earth. Fieldstone is a nuisance for farmers seeking to expand their land under cultivation, but at some point it began to be used as a construction material. [1] [2] [3] Strictly speaking, it is stone collected from the surface of fields where it occurs ...
Gardberg consists of several burial cairns and clearance cairns as well as areas of early industry and farming. It is the location of about 550 burial mounds dating from the Roman Iron Age and the Viking Age. Investigations have established that the site was inhabited from the Stone Age.
Kebbuck Stone, Sunnyhillock (Monument) (MHG7034) 300 AD to 900 AD NH 8256 5556 3.39 Kerb Cairn and Clearance Cairns - Hill of Urchany (Monument) (MHG7025) 4000 BC to 551 BC NH 8928 5067 3.41 Clearance Cairn - Dalbuie (Monument) (MHG7255) 4000 BC to 560 AD NH 8980 4069 3.45 Hut circles (4), Sunnyhillock (Monument) (MHG7032) 2400 BC to 551 BC
The best known of a group of recumbent stone circles Maiden Stone: Pictish cross slab of the 9th century AD Memsie Cairn: A large stone-built cairn, possibly of Bronze Age date, but enlarged during field clearance during the last two centuries. Peel Ring of Lumphanan: Site of a fortified residence Picardy Symbol Stone: Pictish symbol stones
All together there are about 80 cairns on Ramsley Moor. [3] The majority are less than 6 metres in diameter. [3] Many are believed to be clearance cairns of later prehistoric date. Some of the larger cairns are likely to be Bronze Age funerary monuments. Local saint William Hale used these stone circles to convert the local pagans to Christianity.