This painting is taken from a sketch made in the South West Region, in the desert on the road to Najran. On the crest of the hill on the right is a tumulus (with a bedouin 'marker' on top) and a stone 'tail' leading from it which, in this instance, consists of a row of single stones. Other, larger, 'tails' can be made up of a series of mounds of stones, each as much as a few feet in diameter. They are always on the crest of a hill so that they can be seen from a distance.

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