The so-called sarsen stones, each weighing as much as fifty tons, came from Marlborough Downs, twenty miles away. |
Outside the northeastern entrance of Stonehenge they were dressed smooth by pounding with sarsen hammers. |
It appears not to be local heathstone, but a foreign sarsen. |
Rock art comprising images of axes and daggers was engraved into some of the trilithons and other sarsen stones. |
Excavations revealed a sarsen stone cist containing a cremation burial accompanied by a bronze awl and a jet pendant. |
Three of the five sarsen trilithon lintels are in place, with the other two on the ground. |