Bluestone vs. Sarsen

Bluestonenoun

(UK) A form of dolerite which appears blue when wet or freshly broken.

Bluestonenoun

(UK) Any of several massive stones used to construct Stonehenge.

Bluestonenoun

(US) A feldspathic sandstone in the U.S.

Bluestonenoun

(US) A form of limestone native to the Shenandoah Valley

Bluestonenoun

(Australia) A basalt or olivine basalt.

Bluestonenoun

Slate from quarries in or near Adelaide.

Bluestonenoun

Blue vitriol.

Bluestonenoun

A grayish blue building stone, as that commonly used in the eastern United States.

Bluestonenoun

bluish-gray sandstone used for paving and building

Bluestonenoun

any of various bluish or grey building stones.

Bluestonenoun

any of the smaller stones made of dolerite found in the inner part of Stonehenge.

Bluestone

Bluestone is a cultural or commercial name for a number of dimension or building stone varieties, including:

Sarsennoun

Any of various blocks of sandstone found in various locations in southern England.

Sarsennoun

One of the large sandstone blocks scattered over the English chalk downs; - called also sarsen stone, and Druid stone.

Sarsen

Sarsen stones are sandstone blocks found in quantity in the United Kingdom on Salisbury Plain and the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire; in Kent; and in smaller quantities in Berkshire, Essex, Oxfordshire, Dorset, and Hampshire. They are the post-glacial remains of a cap of Cenozoic silcrete that once covered much of southern England – a dense, hard rock created from sand bound by a silica cement, making it a kind of silicified sandstone.