As predicted a few days ago, this story is being picked up by the media all over the place. A press release has clearly been distributed quite widely. Make no mistake -- this is not a piece of reactive reporting, in which the NPA and MPP and his team are genuinely "horrified" by the increasing visitor numbers to Waun Mawn, Craig Rhosyfelin and Carn Goedog. This is all proactive -- part of the targetted campaign to promote the "international importance" of two imaginary quarries and one imaginary "lost circle."
I haven't seen any sign of "looting" at Waun Mawn, during my many visits to the area. There isn't anything to loot -- just one rather large standing stone and several recumbent ones.........
This, from the Telegraph article, is typical: "Waun Mawn has been the subject of increased interest after Prof Parker Pearson's team unearthed evidence suggesting stones from the site may have been moved 150 miles to Salisbury Plain to form Stonehenge in the 3rd millennium BC."
As we all know, the evidence from the site did nothing of the sort -- but as we also know, if you repeat nonsense often enough, it becomes accepted as the truth in the minds of the gullible.
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They do say august is the silly season for news.
For the Telegraph, every season is the silly season -- they seem to have an editorial policy of giving prominence to anything sent to them by MPP and his merry gang......
......probably got a tame "archaeology correspondent" at the Telegraph .
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