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sarsen (ˈsɑːs(ə)n) Also sarsden, -don, sarcen. [App. identical with Sarsen, var. of Saracen.] (In full sarsen-stone, sarsen boulder.) One of the numerous large boulders or blocks of sandstone found scattered on the surface of the chalk downs, esp. in Wiltshire.[1644: see Saracen n. 4.] a 1691 Aubrey...
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Sarsen Amanzholov
Sarsen Amanzholuly Amanzholov (; ; on December 27, 1903 – January 28, 1958), was a noted Turkologist, and one of the pioneers of Kazakh linguistics.
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Stonehenge - 1st-2nd Stages, Aubrey Holes, Sarsen Stones, Trilithons ...
First stage: 3000-2935 bce. The oldest part of the Stonehenge monument was built during the period from 3000 to 2935 bce.It consists of a circular enclosure that is more than 330 feet (100 metres) in diameter, enclosing 56 pits called the Aubrey Holes, named after John Aubrey, who identified them in 1666.The ditch of the enclosure is flanked on the inside by a high bank and on the outside by ...
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Sarsen Amanzholov East Kazakhstan State University
The Sarsen Amanzholov East Kazakhstan University () is a leading multidisciplinary higher educational institution in Oskemen, Kazakhstan. On 3 October 2003, the university was named after famous scientist-linguist and professor Sarsen Amanzholov.
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Y and Z Holes
The Y and Z Holes are two rings of concentric (though irregular) circuits of 30 and 29 near-identical pits cut around the outside of the Sarsen Circle The inner Z holes, of which only 29 are known (the missing hole Z 8 may lie beneath the fallen Sarsen stone 8), are slightly larger, on average by some
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Fyfield Down
The down has the best assemblage of sarsen stones in England, known as the Grey Wethers. Sarsens
The down has the best assemblage of sarsen stones in England.
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Ashdown Park
The park has been designated an SSSI because of the lichens on its many sarsen boulders.
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Fyfield (near Marlborough)
The downland has many sarsen stones – pieces of dense, hard, sandy rock. The Free family moved to Marlborough in 1890; sarsen cutting declined after 1915 and ceased in 1939.
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East Kennett
Further south, a circle of sarsen stones is possibly from the Bronze Age. The Ridgeway, an ancient trackway, passes through East Kennet village. The older part is constructed from the local sarsen sandstone.
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Q and R Holes
Beneath the turf and just inside the later Sarsen Circle is a double arc of buried stoneholes, the only surviving evidence of the first stone structure cut through by both the settings of the later and still partly surviving Bluestone Circle, and also by a stonehole dug for one of the uprights of the Sarsen
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Eileen Kernaghan
Journey to Aprilioth, Songs from the Drowned Lands and The Sarsen Witch were published by Ace Books during the 1980s. The Sarsen Witch (1989). New York: Ace. .
Dance of the Snow Dragon (1995). Saskatoon, Sask: Thistledown Press. .
The Snow Queen (2000).
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Litton Cheney
A single sarsen stone was located on the southeast of the ditch, which the Piggotts suggested may have been the last surviving stone in a circle. A further three sarsen stones were located 90 feet to the south of the circle, but their relation to it was deemed "problematic" by the Piggotts.
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Silcrete
Hertfordshire puddingstone and sarsen stone), and France. Avebury and many other megalithic monuments in southern England are also built with sarsen stones.
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