My Scottish Stone Fellow

Beside the road somewhere between the Isle of Skye and Ben Nevis I found these intriguing rock formations. With or without names on them. I promptly had to make my own with a few tossed rocks and stones. Later I learnt that these formations are called "cairn". Man made piles of stones with different purposes and meaning. For example they have lighthouse and navigation purposes, mark burial grounds and battlefields, mountain summits, spiritual and ceremonial meaning, mark hiking trails and so on.

In Sweden these types of rock formations are called "röse" or "kummel" if they're used at sea for navigation purposes. But as far as I know there aren't a lot of these smaller man made piles still being made and worked on here. The ones we do have seem to be mostly ancient burial ground commemorations.

Now, can you guess which one is my wee fellow? Which pile signals Pia was here?

Here he is, he might not look much but he's my little reusable eco-friendly footprint in Scotland. And if I may say so, rather well-shaped with base firmly on ground and snazzy looking in pink and grey.