- sarsen-boulders
- [,sɑːsn'bəuldəz]
English-Russian Great Britain dictionary (Великобритания. Лингвострановедческий словарь). 2014.
English-Russian Great Britain dictionary (Великобритания. Лингвострановедческий словарь). 2014.
Sarsen — stones are stone blocks found in quantity on Salisbury Plain, the Marlborough Downs, in Kent, and in smaller quantities in Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Dorset and Hampshire. They are the remains of a cap of tertiary sandstone which once covered much… … Wikipedia
Silbury Hill — Infobox World Heritage Site WHS = Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites State Party = Type = Cultural Criteria = i, ii, iii ID = 373 Region = Europe and North America Year = 1986 Session = 10th Link = http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/373Silbury… … Wikipedia
Avebury — /ayv beuh ree/, n. 1. Baron. See Lubbock, Sir John. 2. Also, Abury. a village in Wiltshire, England: site of one of the largest ceremonial megalithic structures in Europe. * * * Village, Wiltshire, England, lying partly within one of the largest… … Universalium
stone — 1. noun /stəʊn,stoʊn/ a) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks and boulders. , 1843: Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a … Wiktionary
Saracen — [13] The Saracens were etymologically ‘people of the sunrise’ – hence ‘easterners’. The word comes via Old French Saracin and late Latin saracēnus from Greek Sarakēnós, which was probably adapted from Arabic sharqī ‘eastern’. This was a… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
Saracen — [13] The Saracens were etymologically ‘people of the sunrise’ – hence ‘easterners’. The word comes via Old French Saracin and late Latin saracēnus from Greek Sarakēnós, which was probably adapted from Arabic sharqī ‘eastern’. This was a… … Word origins