Have the bluestone quarry hunters called it a day?

The 2019 edition of the National Park "tourist newspaper" called COAST TO COAST has now been published, with all the events planned for the coming holiday season -- and for the first time since 2011 there is no mention of a bluestone quarrying talk at Castell Henllys (or anywhere else) presented by Prof MPP towards the end of September.    Last year he gave two talks on successive evenings, at the same venue -- but really had very little to say.

So this probably means that he and the rest of the jolly quarry hunters have at last given up on their hunt for Proto-Stonehenge and for even more bluestone "quarries"--  and have accepted that they have been flogging a dead horse for the last few years.  Two seasons of fruitless searching at Waun Mawn might have tipped the balance.

Or maybe it's the funding organizations who have come to the dead horse conclusion, have finally got fed up of MPP and the others refusing to accept that their findings are disputed, and have at last pulled the funding.........   Not before time, one might say, given that we have complained endlessly about scientific malpractice at Rhosyfelin, Carngoedog and Waun Mawn.  We have also noted with interest that the archaeological establishment which should be enforcing good practice appears to have turned a blind eye to all the misdemeanours of the dozen or so archaeologists and geologists involved.

So -- a September in Pembs free of archaeologists?   What a pleasant thought.......

I suppose there is a chance that funding applications are still being processed, and that digging plans  are not yet finalised.  We shall see.  I'll report on any developments.