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    Sarsen stones are silicified sandstone blocks found extensively across southern England on the Salisbury Plain and the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire;...
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    miles (3 km) west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide...
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  • Sarsen Amanzholuly Amanzholov (Kazakh: Сәрсен Аманжолұлы Аманжолов, Särsen Amanjolūly Amanjolov; Russian: Сарсен Аманжолович Аманжолов; December 27, 1903...
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  • eve of his thirty-first birthday. The number of uprights that formed the Sarsen Circle at Stonehenge, also the supposed number of holes forming the arrays...
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    core drilled from one of the upright sarsen stones at Stonehenge in 1958, and compared it to samples from 20 sarsen outcrops around the country. The chemistry...
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  • trust owned 30 nature reserves and had 2,000 members. In 1989, the first Sarsen Trail & Neolithic Marathon was held, raising £21,500 which was used to buy...
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    825302°W / 51.179305; -1.825302 The Heel Stone is a single large block of sarsen stone standing within the Avenue outside the entrance of the Stonehenge...
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  • Gillian Howell (redirect from Gill Sarsen)
    the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. As Gill Sarsen, together with her future husband, Bill Howell, and Stanley Amis, they designed...
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    Kent. It is also the site of a spring, around which are scattered numerous sarsen stones which may be the remains of a Neolithic monument and part of the...
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    the lawn at Thomas Hardy's house at Max Gate when they discovered a large sarsen stone three feet (0.9 m) underground. It took seven men with levers to raise...
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    before being outmoded entirely. In the Wiltshire dialect, the meaning of "Sarsen" (Saracen) was eventually extended to refer to anything regarded as non-Christian...
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  • The Sarsen Amanzholov East Kazakhstan University (Kazakh: Сәрсен Аманжолов атындағы Шығыс Қазақстан университеті) is a leading multidisciplinary higher...
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    woodlands and a wildflower meadow. The park was opened in 1930, and in 1951 a Sarsen Stone that had been unearthed at a gravel works in Heston in 1926 was installed...
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    throughout the world especially England (e.g. Hertfordshire puddingstone and sarsen stone), and France. In the Great Plains of the United States, polished silcrete...
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    Down has produced Iron Age and Romano-British finds. The downland has many sarsen stones – pieces of dense, hard, sandy rock. In prehistoric times these were...
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  • Kent. It is the site of a spring and also the site of a now lost group of sarsen stones thought to possibly be the remains of a Neolithic chambered long...
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    Scientific Interest, notified in 1951. The down has the best assemblage of sarsen stones in England, known as the Grey Wethers. The site is to be distinguished...
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    says that the horse grazes there at night. The Blowing Stone, a perforated sarsen stone, lies in a garden in Kingston Lisle, 2 km (1.2 mi) away and produces...
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    mortise and tenon joinery was employed in Chinese construction. The thirty sarsen stones of Stonehenge were dressed and fashioned with mortise and tenon joints...
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    centuries after, the earthworks. It is thought that there were originally 98 sarsen standing stones, some weighing in excess of 40 tons. The stones varied in...
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    1899–1900 by John Oldrid Scott. The church is built of flint rubble, with sarsen stone footings and some dressings, some roughcast, other dressings in ashlar...
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    habitat for early gentian. Geologically, its chalk downs, dry valleys and sarsen outcrops are of note, the last in the area around Marlborough providing...
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    on the Medway's eastern side. Built out of earth and around fifty local sarsen-stone megaliths, the long barrow consisted of a sub-rectangular earthen...
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    measuring 47 feet in diameter that was encircled by a shallow ditch. A single sarsen stone was located on the southeast of the ditch, which the Piggotts suggested...
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    nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The alphabet was reworked by Sarsen Amanzholov and accepted in its current form in 1940. It contains 42 letters:...
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    Avebury in the uplands of northern Wiltshire. Built out of earth, local sarsen megaliths, and oolitic limestone imported from the Cotswolds, the long barrow...
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    Pearls : celebrating 40 years of sacred dance in the Findhorn Community. Sarsen Press. ISBN 978-0-9934358-5-0. OCLC 1001307546. Watts, June (2006). Circle...
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  • Mysterious sinkhole in East Kennett surrounded in the 4th century with sarsen stones by Romans, possibly as a religious feature 5 "Roman Mosaics and Ancient...
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  • prototypes were built Saracinesco, a commune in the Province of Rome, Italy Sarsen, a sandstone block Sarrazin (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists...
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    Sandstone in Wales, though this has not been fully established. Stone 55 (a sarsen megalith) lies on top of Stone 80 (Altar Stone) perpendicularly, and is...
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