A Clearance Cairn is an irregular and unstructured collection of stones which have been removed from arable land or pasture to allow for more effective agriculture and collected into a usually low mound or cairn. Commonly of Bronze Age origins, these cairns may be part of a cairnfield (a collection of closely spaced cairns) where some cairns might be funerary. Clearance cairns are a World wide phenomena wherever organised agriculture has been practised.

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  • A Clearance Cairn is an irregular and unstructured collection of stones which have been removed from arable land or pasture to allow for more effective agriculture and collected into a usually low mound or cairn. Commonly of Bronze Age origins, these cairns may be part of a cairnfield (a collection of closely spaced cairns) where some cairns might be funerary. Clearance cairns are a World wide phenomena wherever organised agriculture has been practised.
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  • A Clearance Cairn is an irregular and unstructured collection of stones which have been removed from arable land or pasture to allow for more effective agriculture and collected into a usually low mound or cairn. Commonly of Bronze Age origins, these cairns may be part of a cairnfield (a collection of closely spaced cairns) where some cairns might be funerary. Clearance cairns are a World wide phenomena wherever organised agriculture has been practised.
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  • Clearance cairn
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