1. Into this friendship, Margaret Cairns White made her entrance.

2. The conical cairn is built with terraces.

3. Occasional cairns led us to a challenging rocky descent into another forest, full of rhododendron blossom, pine scents and birdsong.

4. Cigarette ends growing into a mound similar to a cairn over a dead hero.

5. Under sheltering trees stand three cairns and stone circles, worn yet awesomely dignified after more than 5,000 years.

6. Spaced evenly from the bottom up, concentric rings of black crow feathers rise to the top of the cairn.

7. These passage-graves were covered with cairns of stone, frequently mixed with shells in coastal districts.

8. Cairns and co focus on the oddities of human nature with a certain morbid curiosity.

9. Ahead, a low cairn of granite boulders rose clear of the moor.

10. It had a big cairn of stones which made it quite distinctive.

11. Take a path south for the last 100yds to the summit cairn.

12. This time, we succeeded and indeed met no difficulties apart from one awkward step across a gap just before the cairn.

13. Some one constructed a stone walkway leading to the cairn, as though it were an altar.

14. They comprise pits dug deep into the ground, lined with logs, and covered with a low cairn of stones.

15. The Takaroa operates from Cairns, and allows the visiting diver to venture further afield.

16. Leave the path and walk along the hillside until you come to three prominent cairns - the Grey Lads.

17. At the end of the road, a four-foot-tall rock cairn stands between us and the beach.

18. From here head south-west over a stony plateau, descending slightly to a large cairn.

19. Generally, those set within the enclosures did not have a covering although a few did have round cairns over them.

20. The portion of the Subeshi cemetery excavated in 1992 consisted of some 40 low stone cairns covering burials set on wooden beds.