bluestone

[bloo-stohn]

noun

1. a bluish, argillaceous sandstone used for building purposes, flagging, etc.

bluestone

/ ˈbluːˌstəʊn /

noun

1. a blue-grey sandstone containing much clay, used for building and paving

2. the blue crystalline form of copper sulphate

3. a blue variety of basalt found in Australia and used as a building stone

Word History and Origins

Origin of bluestone¹

First recorded in 1645–55; blue + stone

Example Sentences

Their work offers evidence for the first time of links between cattle remains at Stonehenge and Wales, at the time when the bluestone megaliths were moved to the site.

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While many archaeologists believe the smaller bluestones from the Preseli Hills were transported by humans, others believe they were transported by glacial ice long before Stonehenge was built.

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It is composed of sarsens and bluestones, all of them aligned towards the sunrise on the summer solstice and sunset on the winter solstice.

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Most of the bluestones are believed to have been the first stones erected at the site.

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The area’s state representative, Jonathan Fritz, said an overwhelming number of his constituents favor natural gas drilling, an important economic engine in a county where farming, logging and bluestone quarrying were primary industries.

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