Lexicographical Neighbors of Sarsens
Literary usage of Sarsens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ice Or Water: Another Appeal to Induction from the Scholastic Methods of by Henry Hoyle Howorth (1905)
"The upper Bagshot sand has been denuded and replaced by the high level ferruginous
flint gravel; and in this the sarsens he, their mother-sand having been ..."
2. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association by Geologists' Association (1908)
"Just before entering the village some large sarsens in the steep roadside were
... A little farther on a magnificent, mortarless wall of large sarsens, ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1901)
"Other deriva tions have been proposed, Saracen softened t Sarsen, and the Latin
taxa, stone [*ic]." It is the blue-stones at Stonehenge, and no the sarsens, ..."
4. Man by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1902)
"A legend is current that the " Milestones " circles are of earlier date than
the " sarsens," and that they were brought from Ireland. ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1904)
"sarsens are very abundant in the neighbourhood of Bagshot. They have been observed
by the author firstly, and most frequently, at the bottom of or close to ..."
6. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association by Geologists' Association (1904)
"With regard to the sarsens the Director said he did not believe them to have been
derived from ... marks of the roots of which we now see in the sarsens. ..."
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