sarsens

  Those sandstone boulders, known as sarsens, were carved by hand using other stones, in an age before metal tools, but are skillfully mortised to join them together.

Secrets of the Circle 2008

This isn't one of the more iconic, towering stones known as sarsens that were added centuries later, but rather a piece of the inner circle.

Gizmodo Brent Rose 2012

The larger stones or "sarsens" are natural to the Marlborough Downs, but the unhewn or "blue" stones are mysterious.

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

  The sarsens were probably sourced closer to their present site, which is a good thing, since it's reckoned it would take 200 stone age men to budge one -- let alone stand it on end.

Secrets of the Circle 2008

Although the great sarsens with which Stonehenge's main structure was built are of local origin, within lies a smaller circle of "bluestones", exotics which in 1921 were traced to the Presceli mountains in Pembrokeshire, some 150 miles to the west.

Archive 2007-01-01 2007

Although the great sarsens with which Stonehenge's main structure was built are of local origin, within lies a smaller circle of "bluestones", exotics which in 1921 were traced to the Presceli mountains in Pembrokeshire, some 150 miles to the west.

Stonehenge: a new view from a medieval artist 2007

Stonehenge includes two distinct types of stone: sarsens, which form the main outer circle, and smaller bluestones, including spotted dolerite, used for the inner circle and the horseshoe-shaped arrangement capped with lintels.

Millennium Stone Saga 2000

A circle of sarsens once surrounded the base, but these have almost all disappeared.

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

” How came the stones here? for these sarsens, or Druidical sandstones, are not found in this neighborhood.

XVI. English Traits. Stonehenge 1909

These excavations made it clear that the blue-stones had been shaped on the spot, whereas the sarsens had been roughly prepared at the place where they were found, and only finished off on the spot where they were erected.

Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders 1908