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Clearance cairn, the Glossary

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A clearance cairn is an irregular and unstructured collection of fieldstones which have been removed from arable land or pasture to allow for more effective agriculture and collected into a usually low mound or cairn.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 28 relations: Agriculture, Ard (plough), Bog-wood, Brill Publishers, Bronze Age, Burnt mound, Cairn, English Heritage, Fieldstone, Gardberg site, Glacial erratic, Hut circle, Lifting stone, Neolithic Revolution, Norway, Oppland, Plough, Rhön Biosphere Reserve, Ring cairn, Round barrow, Stone Age, Stone picker, Tannin, The History Press, University of Portsmouth, University of Sheffield, Vestre Slidre, Walled garden.

  2. Agricultural land
  3. Artificial hills
  4. Glacial erratics
  5. Landscape history
  6. Stone buildings

Agriculture

Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.

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Ard (plough)

The ard, ard plough, or scratch plough is a simple light plough without a mouldboard.

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Bog-wood

Bog-wood (also spelled bogwood or bog wood), also known as abonos and, especially amongst pipe smokers, as morta, is a material from trees that have been buried in peat bogs and preserved from decay by the acidic and anaerobic bog conditions, sometimes for hundreds or even thousands of years.

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Brill Publishers

Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.

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Burnt mound

A burnt mound is an archaeological feature consisting of a mound of shattered stones and charcoal, normally with an adjacent hearth and trough.

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Cairn

A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound. Clearance cairn and cairn are Artificial hills, Landscape history and stone buildings.

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English Heritage

English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places.

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Fieldstone

Fieldstone is a naturally occurring type of stone, which lies at or near the surface of the Earth.

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Gardberg site

Gardberg Site (Gardbergfeltet) is an archaeological site located east of the Einang Sound in the municipality of Vestre Slidre, Oppland County, Norway.

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Glacial erratic

A glacial erratic is a glacially deposited rock differing from the type of rock native to the area in which it rests. Clearance cairn and glacial erratic are glacial erratics.

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Hut circle

In archaeology, a hut circle is a circular or oval depression in the ground which may or may not have a low stone wall around it that used to be the foundation of a round house.

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Lifting stone

Lifting stones are heavy natural stones which people are challenged to lift, proving their strength.

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Neolithic Revolution

The Neolithic Revolution, also known as the First Agricultural Revolution, was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures during the Neolithic period in Afro-Eurasia from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, making an increasingly large population possible.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Oppland

Oppland is a former county in Norway which existed from 1781 until its dissolution on 1 January 2020.

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Plough

A plough or plow (US; both) is a farm tool for loosening or turning the soil before sowing seed or planting.

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Rhön Biosphere Reserve

The Rhön Biosphere Reserve includes the entire central area of the Rhön Mountains, a low mountain range in the German states of Hesse, Bavaria and Thuringia.

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Ring cairn

A ring cairn (also correctly termed a ring bank enclosure, but sometimes wrongly described as a ring barrow) is a circular or slightly oval, ring-shaped, low (maximum 0.5 metres high) embankment, several metres wide and from 8 to 20 metres in diameter.

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Round barrow

A round barrow is a type of tumulus and is one of the most common types of archaeological monuments.

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Stone Age

The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface.

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Stone picker

A stone picker (or rock picker) is an implement to sieve through the top layer of soil to separate and collect rocks and soil debris from good topsoil.

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Tannin

Tannins (or tannoids) are a class of astringent, polyphenolic biomolecules that bind to and precipitate proteins and various other organic compounds including amino acids and alkaloids.

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The History Press

The History Press is a British publishing company specialising in the publication of titles devoted to local and specialist history.

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University of Portsmouth

The University of Portsmouth (UoP) is a public university in Portsmouth, England.

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University of Sheffield

The University of Sheffield (informally Sheffield University or TUOS) is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

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Vestre Slidre

Vestre Slidre is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway.

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Walled garden

A walled garden is a garden enclosed by high walls, especially when this is done for horticultural rather than security purposes, although originally all gardens may have been enclosed for protection from animal or human intruders.

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See also

Agricultural land

Artificial hills

Glacial erratics

Landscape history

Stone buildings

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearance_cairn

Also known as Cairnfield, Cairnfields.