nigheandonn wrote:There are a couple of hills in the Lake District where someone has stuck metal posts into the cairns, so that they look a bit like a bonfire of pitchforks. Starling Dodd is one, I think, the other is somewhere round Kentmere.
The other one with the metal posts in the cairn is Harter Fell
Here's a few random others I've seen
Stiperstones - quartzite rich formations including 'Devil's Chair"
White Nancy on Kerridge Hill
Castell Dinas Bran - castle on top of the hill
Moel Famau, Ben Lawers - remains of summit monuments
The Cobbler, Helm Crag, Stac Pollaidh summit rocks (and obviously, In Pin, which I've not been to!)
Cadair Idris, Foel Grach - summit shelters
Yorkshire 3 Peaks - I recall some carvings on these summits, depicting fossils
Arenig Fawr, Great Carrs - air crash memorials
Glas Tulaichean - two concrete "pillows" (presumably unused cement for the trig, which set inside its sacks)
Hoad Hill, Breidden, Stoodley Pike - memorial obelisks
Carn Menyn - source of the Stonehenge bluestones
Dartmoor and Cairngorms tors, also some tor-like summit formations in the Carneddau such as Yr Aryg and Bera Mawr, and on the westernmost of the Nantlle Ridge (can't remember its name)
Mynydd Carningli, Yr Eifl, Carrock Fell - Iron Age (I think) forts
Castle Crag - quarry on summit
Great Gable - war memorial on summit
The Four Stones, Clent - folly in the form of a stone circle
Bronze Age cairns on the summits of many hills - Carneddau especially
On Lickey Hills there used to be a number of wind-powered instruments (aeolian harps etc) but they have gradually distintegrated
Mad Meg's Cairn on Creag Meagaidh
Tim