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Sarsen
Also called sarsens
A hard silcrete sandstone found as boulders on the chalk downs of southern England; the large stones of Stonehenge are sarsens.
Rules that use the word
Joints of carpentry worked in stone. At Stonehenge each lintel is pegged to its uprights by a mortise-and-tenon joint and locked to its neighbours by tongue-and-groove joints, and each is curved to follow the circle: the joints of a timber frame reproduced in dressed sarsen.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters Post and Lintel.
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