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What is a sarsen?

What is a sarsen? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (usually as “sarcen stone”) One of various blocks of sandstone found in various locations in southern England.
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It appears not to be local heathstone, but a foreign sarsen.
Three of the five sarsen trilithon lintels are in place, with the other two on the ground.
It is thought that there were originally 98 sarsen standing stones, some weighing in excess of 40 tons.
The Heel Stone lies north east of the sarsen circle, beside the end portion of Stonehenge Avenue.
Within the sarsen circle are the five impressive trilithons, forming a horseshoe-shaped ring of huge stones.
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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