cairn
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A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.
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.
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Seeking gold and glory, leaving weathered, broken bones And a long-forgotten lonely cairn of stones.
Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
If the cairn were not built, the magpie wouldn't have perched.
British oil explorer Cairn Energy Plc. said it is seeking $1.4 billion (about ₹10,300 crore) from the Indian government in losses arising from the expropriation of its investments to enforce a retrospective tax demand.
Barclay, Gordon "The Neolithic" in Edwards & Ralston (2003) p. 136 Corrimony chambered cairn near Drumnadrochit is an example dated to 2000 BC or older.
Archaeologists Alasdair Whittle and Michael Wysocki note that this period of occupation may be "significant", with respect to Parc Cwm long cairn, as it is "broadly contemporary with the secondary use of the tomb".