ryaner wrote: Also, the road/wall building material theory is an actual fact, one that I reckon continues today.
Yes, this is the way I would generally understand the use of the term "robbed" cairn, i.e. robbed of its stone material, not robbed of treasure.
Also, much of the robbing occurred back in prehistoric times. I suspect many an iron age rampart/reave/pound etc re-used material from nearby cairns, once the original significance of the mound was forgotten over a couple of thousand years.
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