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Wiktionary

  1. sarsennoun

    (usually as sarcen stone) one of various blocks of sandstone found in various locations in southern England.

  2. Etymology: From Saracen

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sarsennoun

    one of the large sandstone blocks scattered over the English chalk downs; -- called also sarsen stone, and Druid stone

  2. Etymology: [Etymol. uncertain; perhaps for saracen stone, i.e., a heathen or pagan stone or monument.]

Wikidata

  1. Sarsen

    Sarsen stones are sandstone blocks found in quantity in the United Kingdom on Salisbury Plain, the Marlborough Downs, in Kent, and in smaller quantities in Berkshire, Essex, Oxfordshire, Dorset and Hampshire. They are the post-glacial remains of a cap of tertiary silcrete which once covered much of southern England, a dense, hard rock created from sand bound by a silica cement, making it a kind of silicified sandstone. This is thought to have formed during Neogene to Quaternary weathering by the silicification of Upper Paleocene Lambeth Group sediments, resulting from acid leaching.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Sarsen

    sär′sen, n. a local name for the old inhabitants who worked the tin-mines in Cornwall and Devonshire—(the piles of old mining refuse are called attal-Sarsen and Jews' leavings).—Also Sars′den-stone, Sar′acen's-stone, a name given to the Greywethers of Cornwall.

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  1. RNases

  2. snares

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sarsen in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sarsen in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of sarsen in a Sentence

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    Studying the Stonehenge core's 'DNA' could tell us more about where those enormous sarsen stones originated.


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