sar|sen

sar|sen
sar|sen «SAHR suhn», noun.
any number of large boulders or blocks of sandstone found as parts or remnants of prehistoric buildings. The sarsens of Stonehenge, in England, are the most famous stones of this kind. »

Those that first catch the attention are the immense sarsens, great monoliths of sandstone (Scientific American).

[apparently variant of Saracen (because they were originally thought to have built the buildings)]

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