What is "sarsens"

Usage examples of "sarsens".

But what were his own monuments, the great sarsens which hundreds dragged across the plain to make the circle?

The search for the sarsens, or the sandstone, as it is now called, the means of bringing the boulders back, of dressing them and erecting them, and finally laying in place the lintels-this consumed us.

The search for the sarsens, or the sandstone, as it is now called, the means of bringing the boulders back, of dressing them and erecting them, and finally laying in place the lintels – this consumed us.

Sitting with my back propped against one of the circle of sarsens which were once placed on this hallowed spot by people like and unlike me and are now shadowed in soot and clawed by graffiti, I can see most of Brownheath spread below, rising and falling in greys and greens with bits of town and forest sprouting like bodyhair all the way to the bigger peaks of the Pennines.

There were carvings as well, inward swirls which reminded me of the mossy shapes on the sarsens on top of Rainharrow.

And the guilds would be more a tale than a memory, their statues remote as sarsens, their deeds more distant than England's kings.

I even saw the young greatgrandmaster once, standing at twilight out by the sarsens in a fine black cloak much like the one you're wearing, Robert.

That was a shame because it must have been quite a sight before the sarsens had been toppled.

They were imposing stones but raising them must have been a mere trifle compared to setting up the sarsens crowning the mound.

The great uprights - the sarsens - of that formidable array of stones weigh 50 tons each.

Garstang and Cargus both declared them to be sarsens, though they stood without perceptible order or regularity.

Crows ranged all around on the tops of the sarsens, twenty, thirty, forty?