Sarsen Stone

An extremely hard silcrete sandstone, the cemented remains of a once near-continuous desert crust broken into scattered boulders by glacial action; quarried locally in southern England for exceptionally durable paving setts and kerbs.

Mines

MineRegionWorked
Denner Hill Quarries Buckinghamshire Principally worked 19th and early 20th centuries–No quarries producing Denner Hill stone remain active