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In Highland folklore it is recounted that before Highland clans fought in a battle, each man would place a stone in a pile. Those who survived the battle returned and removed a stone from the pile. The stones that remained were built into a cairn to honour the dead. [citation needed] Cairns in the region were also put to vital practical use.
A pillar is a landform, either of rock or earth, defined by the USGS as: "Vertical, standing, often spire-shaped, natural rock formation (chimney, monument, pinnacle, pohaku, rock tower)." [ 1 ] Some examples of rock pillars are Chambers Pillar , Katskhi pillar , Pompeys Pillar , and Pillar Rock .
An effigy mound is a pile of earth, often very large in scale, that is shaped into the image of a person or animal, often for symbolic or spiritual reasons [7] An enclosure is a space that is surrounded by an earthwork. [8] Long barrows are oblong-shaped mounds that are used for burials. [9] A tumulus or barrow is a mound of earth created over ...
An inuksuk at the Foxe Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada. An inuksuk (plural inuksuit) [1] or inukshuk [2] (from the Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᒃᓱᒃ, plural ᐃᓄᒃᓱᐃᑦ; alternatively inukhuk in Inuinnaqtun, [3] iñuksuk in Iñupiaq, inussuk in Greenlandic) is a type of stone landmark or cairn built by, and for the use of, Inuit, Iñupiat, Kalaallit, Yupik, and other peoples of the Arctic region of ...
A mound is a heaped pile of earth, gravel, sand, rocks, or debris. Most commonly, mounds are earthen formations such as hills and mountains, particularly if they appear artificial. A mound may be any rounded area of topographically higher elevation on any surface.
The term scree is applied both to an unstable steep mountain slope composed of rock fragments and other debris, and to the mixture of rock fragments and debris itself. [1] [2] [3] It is loosely synonymous with talus, material that accumulates at the base of a projecting mass of rock, [2] [4] or talus slope, a landform composed of talus. [5]
The number of rock piles created in this manner in natural areas is of concern to conservationists, because the process can expose the soil to erosion and aesthetically intrude upon the natural landscape. [7] [5] Rock stacking in national parks has been called vandalism by the US National Park Service and by the Queensland Parks and Wildlife ...
Pile (textile), fabric with raised surface made of upright loops or strands of yarn Carpet pile "Piles", a common name for hemorrhoids; Rubble pile, in astronomy, an object consisting of individual pieces of rock that have coalesced under gravity; The Pile (dataset), a machine learning dataset