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Sarsen
Sarsen Sar"sen, n. [Etymol. uncertain; perhaps for saracen stone, i.e., a heathen or pagan stone or monument.] One of the large sandstone blocks scattered over the English chalk downs; -- called also sarsen stone, and Druid stone. [Eng.]

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- S****n stones are silicified sandstone blocks found extensively across southern England on the Salisbury Plain and the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire;...
- miles (3 km) west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical s****n standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide...
- S****n Amanzholuly Amanzholov (Kazakh: Сәрсен Аманжолұлы Аманжолов, Särsen Amanjolūly Amanjolov; Russian: Сарсен Аманжолович Аманжолов; December 27, 1903...
- eve of his thirty-first birthday. The number of uprights that formed the S****n Circle at Stonehenge, also the supposed number of holes forming the arrays...
- the Architectural ****ociation School of Architecture in London. As Gill S****n, together with her ****ure husband, Bill Howell, and Stanley Amis, they designed...
- core drilled from one of the upright s****n stones at Stonehenge in 1958, and compared it to samples from 20 s****n outcrops around the country. The chemistry...
- Kent. It is also the site of a spring, around which are scattered numerous s****n stones which may be the remains of a Neolithic monument and part of the...
- 825302°W / 51.179305; -1.825302 The Heel Stone is a single large block of s****n stone standing within the Avenue outside the entrance of the Stonehenge...
- the lawn at Thomas Hardy's house at Max Gate when they discovered a large s****n stone three feet (0.9 m) underground. It took seven men with levers to raise...
- before being outmoded entirely. In the Wiltshire dialect, the meaning of "S****n" (Saracen) was eventually extended to refer to anything regarded as non-Christian...