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Robbed cairns. Another myth?
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Re: Robbed cairns. Another myth?
Mar 25, 2012, 13:04
Why not "rob" one to restart another...so in the end the last cairn is a bit of a distance from where the original was sited....as to the purpose of this....seems futile to me but there might have been a perfectly logical reason for resiting....this doesn't just apply to cairns.....I tend to agree with the posters here who refer to "robbed" as to mean stones removed(purpose known or unknown to our modern way of thinking) and reused or carted off to be sold as building materials some miles away (saves all the bother of quarrying after all)...not as constant seeking for treasure.....I don't think even many academics would subscribe to the treasure theory...where did that idea come from?
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