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Bluestones

Bluestones | Bluestone

Bluestones meaning

plural of bluestone

Example sentences (3)

Stonehenge, roughly 5,000 years old, is made up of two kinds of stones, called bluestones and sarsens, the latter of which weigh 25 tons on average.

The results revealed that 40% of the people buried at Stonehenge likely came from west Wales, the suggested origin of the site's smaller bluestones, and they most likely helped transport the stones and build Stonehenge.

Although this would seem the most impressive phase of work, Stonehenge 3 IV was rather shabbily built compared to its immediate predecessors, as the newly re-installed bluestones were not well-founded and began to fall over.