Sarsden Stones, a name given to the Grey-wethers (q.v.) of Cornwall, and erroneously interpreted to mean Saracen stones, as the piles of old mining refuse are called attal-Sarsen and Jews'-leavings—on the theory that Saracens, Jews, Phœnicians had wrought there; but really a corruption of a Celtic word.
Sarsden Stones
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 166
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