Talk:Cairn

message: I have an opinion that one of the first Cairns is referred to in the Bible. Joshua Chapter 6, Joshua had just crossed the river Jordan. Then the LORD commands that 12 stones be carried from the River Bed and piled up as a memorial. 
So whenever you see a Cairn you may wish to reflect on how the Israelite Tribes must have felt as they crossed the River Jordan into what was referred to as the Land Of Milk & Honey. 
This crossing is not to be confused with the crossing of the Red Sea which was led by Moses. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Special:Contributions/196.209.105.118 9 January 2006‎ ‎:
:Probably not the first cairns ever but an even better example is Gilead whose name is literally "heap/hill of stones" (Gen. 31); I just added a Middle East section and entry. Nissimnanach (talk) 19:25, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Cairn

message: * oppose - Both articles stand perfectly well on their own, without any content overlap. There's no point in forcing several entirely independent traditions under one title, just because they share a common construction material. --Latebird 22:07, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed merge with [[Ovoo]]

message: Excuse me, but the proposition cannot be seriously founded! I am just an ordinary humanist and no authority on cairns and the like, but can see immediately that traditions, contexts and connotations are different altogether, notwithstanding perhaps accidental overlaps (and not more) in function. Or else, bring together all kinds of heaps of stone in one article (sea marks, boundary marks, mounds cleared from fields ... - most of which are also well-known targets of folklore.) I'm not meaning to dogmatically rule out possible historical connections between these three or a common psychocultural basis - but such things, you handle with in-article reasoning from each respective viewpoint and cross-references.  Keinstein 02:42, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merging with either Inukshuk or Ovoo, good heavens, no!

message: In the US cairns are used to denote the corners of mining claims, and in times past the documentation was placed in the traditional Prince Albert tobacco can lodged in one cairn. This may be required by the mining claims act of 1872. LorenzoB (talk) 20:00, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mining Claims 

message: In the 1980s, I participated in setting up a first aid cairn on Rawalpindi Lake in Canada's Northwest Territories. It was a cache of supplies to be accessed in case of emergency -- things like a rifle, first aid supplies, dried rations, emergency radio, etc.
Either I'm misremembering what we called the thing when we set it up, or it's an extra meaning for cairn.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 17.202.12.143 (talk) 17:46, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rescue/Aid Cairn 

message: Sea cairns are different from other cairns in these ways: They are part of a modern system (of navigation), they are regulated by international convention, they are planned, they are established and maintained, they are subject to damage, they are mapped, there are historical records of their placement. Now I could be wrong about the specifics. But even hiking cairns -- the next closest thing -- in the US are not similar, they are informal, small, irregularly spaced, unmapped. Comments? Thoughts? Alpha Ralpha Boulevard (talk) 09:18, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: P.S. The anon editor who added the tag appears to be years gone from Wikipedia, unfortunately. I'm not qualified to write the Sea cairn article, myself. This is one of those frustrating situations where the maritime is woefully under-represented in Wiki...regardless of their availability, there is subject matter here, and a experienced sailor should be writing it. Alpha Ralpha Boulevard (talk) 09:28, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There is very little material. I will remove the split tag until a qualified editor writes an article . It is ok here for the time being. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 03:29, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Sea cairns need a separate article

message: I think we need to differentiate between different types: chambered cairn, kerb cairn, platform cairn, round cairn, and the ring cairn, as we have done on the Welsh Wicipedia. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 11:12, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Different types

message: Though I see the page gives the origin ("from the Scottish Gaelic: càrn"), nothing here indicates what this actually means, other than as the original term for such a pile of stones. Can anyone give a clearer definition of the word?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.187.9.79 (talk) 14:51, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

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message: IMHO, this article should be linked to de:Cairn_(Steinhügel) rather than de:Steinmännchen. I don't know how to do it, can someone please change it? Thanks. --Jochim Schiller (talk) 09:26, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
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