from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun One of several large masses of silicified sandstone or conglomerate found on or near the ground surface in England and Brittany and believed to be the erosional remains of a sedimentary bed deposited during the Tertiary Period. These masses were used by Neolithic peoples as monoliths.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun Same as Saracen (formerly used in a vague sense for foreigner).
noun The name given in southwestern England to former inhabitants of the region, and especially to former workers of the tin-mines, the ancient piles of attle in Cornwall and Devon being designated as “Jews' pits,” “Jews' leavings,” “attal-Sarsen” or “-Saracen,” “remains of the Sarcens,” etc.
noun [lowercase] Same as Saracen's stone (which see, under Saracen).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun engraving One of the large sandstone blocks scattered over the English chalk downs; -- called also sarsen stone, and Druid stone.
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noun one of various blocks of sandstone found in various locations in southern England.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Short for Sarsen stone, from Early Modern English Sarsen, variant of Saracen, Saracen, heathen, pagan (perhaps in reference to the use of sarsens in ancient monuments); see Saracen.]
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Examples
You may want to take a look at the interesting sarsen stones in front of the house (the same stones used to build part of Stonehenge).
Stonehenge's sarsen stones phase is likely just one of many from this later period of the monument's use and demonstrates that it was still very much a domain of the dead, Parker Pearson said in a statement.
Barbara Bender traces an elemental progression over time in the building of the monuments, from ditch banks of earth to chalk, to wood, and then to stone: both the relatively local sarsen and the bluestone from far away.
Barbara Bender traces an elemental progression over time in the building of the monuments, from ditch banks of earth to chalk, to wood, and then to stone: both the relatively local sarsen and the bluestone from far away.
Leaving the pub, I venture out into this cathedral and notice the bob and swing of hand-held lanterns on the far side of a dark field punctuated with sarsen monoliths.
Leaving the pub, I venture out into this cathedral and notice the bob and swing of hand-held lanterns on the far side of a dark field punctuated with sarsen monoliths.
Stonehenge's sarsen stones phase is likely just one of many from this later period of the monument's use and demonstrates that it was still very much a domain of the dead, Parker Pearson said in a statement.
Stonehenge's sarsen stones phase is likely just one of many from this later period of the monument's use and demonstrates that it was still very much a domain of the dead, Parker Pearson said in a statement.
Stonehenge's sarsen stones phase is likely just one of many from this later period of the monument's use and demonstrates that it was still very much a domain of the dead, Parker Pearson said in a statement.
The theories abound and are far-flung - Druidical, say some, or else sarsen. Those strange monoliths Have spawned many myths. The favorite of late is they're Martian.
qms commented on the word sarsen
The theories abound and are far-flung -
Druidical, say some, or else sarsen.
Those strange monoliths
Have spawned many myths.
The favorite of late is they're Martian.
December 30, 2014