| Excavations revealed a sarsen stone cist containing a cremation burial accompanied by a bronze awl and a jet pendant. |
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| Rock art comprising images of axes and daggers was engraved into some of the trilithons and other sarsen stones. |
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| The so-called sarsen stones, each weighing as much as fifty tons, came from Marlborough Downs, twenty miles away. |
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| It appears not to be local heathstone, but a foreign sarsen. |
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| Outside the northeastern entrance of Stonehenge they were dressed smooth by pounding with sarsen hammers. |
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| Three of the five sarsen trilithon lintels are in place, with the other two on the ground. |
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| Atkinson's records suggested that the Q and R Holes predated the sarsen circle and trilithons, but Darvill and Wainwright's excavation in 2008 cast doubt on this stratigraphic relationship. |
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| The Heel Stone lies north east of the sarsen circle, beside the end portion of Stonehenge Avenue. |
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| Within the sarsen circle are the five impressive trilithons, forming a horseshoe-shaped ring of huge stones. |
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| Ninety stones, which may be sarsen sandstone like Stonehenge, have been found. |
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| They were placed within the outer sarsen circle and may have been trimmed in some way. |
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| It is thought that there were originally 98 sarsen standing stones, some weighing in excess of 40 tons. |
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| Stukeley was disgusted by the destruction of the sarsen stones in the monument, and named those local farmers and builders who were responsible. |
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| It is more likely that the bluestone arc was indeed constructed as part of the sarsen circle and trilithon monument, with bluestones brought from the Aubrey Holes. |
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| Wink at a fellow player at the wrong moment, then, and you might end up dropping that sarsen you have lifted so triumphantly from the fields of Salisbury Plain on the toes of your avatar's foot. |
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| As discussed elsewhere, we believe the bluestones were powerful items within a structure whose framework was formed by the great sarsen trilithons and the Sarsen Circle. |
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| The building has 24 bedsits and flats and a Sarsen spokeswoman said only eight are currently occupied. |
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| The last restoration was carried out in 1963 after stone 23 of the Sarsen Circle fell over. |
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| With the revised Stonehenge chronology, this is after the Sarsen Circle and trilithons were erected at Stonehenge. |
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