Sarsen - Wikipedia
Sarsen. Sarsen stones are silicified sandstone blocks found extensively across southern England on the Salisbury Plain and the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire; in Kent; and in smaller quantities in Berkshire, Essex, Oxfordshire, Dorset, and Hampshire.
Stonehenge: Sarsen stones origin mystery solved - BBC
2020年7月29日 · The origin of the giant sarsen stones at Stonehenge has finally been discovered with the help of a missing piece of the site which was returned after 60 years. A test of the metre-long core was...
Whence Came Stonehenge’s Stones? Now We Know - The New York Times
2020年7月29日 · The sarsens, sandstone slabs that weigh 20 tons on average, form Stonehenge’s enormous central horseshoe, the uprights and lintels of the ragged outer circle, as well as the outlying Heel...
Stonehenge: Sarsen stones origin mystery solved - BBC News
2020年7月29日 · The origin of the giant sarsen stones at Stonehenge has finally been discovered with the help of a missing piece of the site which was returned after 60 years. A test of the metre-long core was...
Archaeologists discover the likely source of Stonehenge’s giant sarsen …
2020年7月30日 · The larger standing stones, known as megaliths, are made of sarsen, a local sandstone. They weigh up to 30 tonnes and stand up to 7 meters (nearly 23 feet) tall, and form all fifteen stones of...
One Mystery of Stonehenge’s Origins Has Finally Been Solved
2020年7月29日 · Until now the prevailing speculation had posited that the sarsens originated to the north of the river, in the Marlborough Downs. Although Nash’s team identified the origin of 50 sarsens, the...
Origins of the sarsen megaliths at Stonehenge | Science Advances …
The smaller “bluestones” near the center of the monument have been traced to Wales, but the origins of the sarsen (silcrete) megaliths that form the primary architecture of Stonehenge remain unknown.
Origin of Stonehenge Sarsen Stones Revealed - Archaeology …
2020年7月30日 · WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND— TheNew York Times reports that 50 of the 52 sarsen stones at Stonhenge, the roughly 5,000-year-old Neolithic-period henge monument on England’s Salisbury Plain, were quarried...
Stonehenge: how we revealed the original source of the biggest …
2020年7月29日 · Conventional wisdom holds that the sarsens were brought to Stonehenge from the Marlborough Downs, some 30km to the north, the closest area with substantial scatters of large sarsen boulders.
Sarsen | stone | Britannica
About 2500 bce the sarsen stones were brought from the Avebury area of the Marlborough Downs, about 20 miles (32 km) to the north. Outside the northeastern entrance of Stonehenge they were dressed smooth by pounding with sarsen hammers.