This is one of my better images of spotted dolerite from Carn Meini or one of the other eastern tors. At least, that's where I think it came from -- it's actually the surface of a dressed stone (hence the fresh appearance) in the front wall of the nonconformist chapel in Mynachlog-ddu. Many of these stones were taken down from the mountain and dressed for the front (posh) face of the chapel. Whether they were quarried is another matter -- perhaps "collected" would be the best word.
Click to enlarge. The texture of the stone shows up rather well.
Just a reminder -- if the idea of proto-Stonehenge is to have any credibility at all, stones with a surface like this will have to be found in abundance by MPP and his fellow workers during their current dig at Waun Mawn. (It is a central part of their thesis that scores of monoliths were carried from the supposed Carn Goedog "Neolithic quarry" and were parked up in a giant Waun Mawn stone circle prior to being transported to Stonehenge.) When I looked quite intensively at the dig site, I did not find a single piece of spotted dolerite..........
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