Reply #53: Rockery?Cairn? Inukshuk? Stonehenge? Stacked rocks, rock stack? Jackson?

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It's a rockery, isn't it? A rockery is a retaining or protection structure that consists of stacked rocks without mortar,concrete, or steel reinforcement.
Although the rocks are stacked in an “interlocking” pattern, there are no mechanical connections made between the individual rocks. Rather, these structures rely on the weight, size, shape, and interface friction of the rock elements to provide overall stability.


Inukshuk refers to the stones stacked by Inuit on the land to remind themselves and instruct others about all sorts of things: danger, a safe crossing, a spring of fresh water, thin ice, deep snow, or that travellers should go this way as opposed to that.