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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;...
- S****n Amanzholuly Amanzholov (Kazakh: Сәрсен Аманжолұлы Аманжолов, Särsen Amanjolūly Amanjolov; Russian: Сарсен Аманжолович Аманжолов; December 27, 1903...
- 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...
- 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...
- trust owned 30 nature reserves and had 2,000 members. In 1989, the first S****n Trail & Neolithic Marathon was held, raising £21,500 which was used to buy...
- 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...
- Down has produced Iron Age and Romano-British finds. The downland has many s****n stonespieces of dense, hard, sandy rock. In prehistoric times these were...
- proceeding left, or clockwise, around the outer ring of cars which represent the s****n megalith circle of Stonehenge. The inner horseshoe of trilithons are also...
- Kent. It is the site of a spring and also the site of a now lost group of s****n stones thought to possibly be the remains of a Neolithic chambered long...
- 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...