I have added the following description of the relevance of the new paper, at the request of Researchgate -- 240 reads so far, and rising...... Quite a few people are interested in it.
This paper reports on new observations at the spotted dolerite tor of Carn Goedog on Mynydd Preseli, claimed by Parker Pearson and others to be the site of a Neolithic "bluestone monolith quarry" with links to Stonehenge. No evidence was found to support the contention of prehistoric quarrying, and indeed the claimed "engineering features" are all shown to be entirely natural and unexceptional. This work should be read alongside the two peer-reviewed papers by John, Elis-Gruffydd and Downes (2015 a and b) which show that the claims of Neolithic monolith quarrying at Craig Rhosyfelin (also excavated by Parker Pearson and his team) are similarly unfounded. It has to be concluded, on careful scrutiny of the evidence, that there are no Neolithic bluestone quarries in West Wales and that any blocks of local rock moved eastwards from Preseli to Salisbury Plain were most likely entrained and transported by glacier ice.
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Citation: John, B.S. 2019 Carn Goedog and the question of the "bluestone megalith quarry". Researchgate Preprint, 25 pp.
Well done.
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