Waun Mawn -- the propaganda war intensifies

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58247235?

Yet more coverage on the BBC, with assorted other players (including the police) sucked into the propaganda effort.  Let's not beat about the bush here -- this is not about protecting the environment or the historic "heritage" of the National Park.  This is about the promotion of Waun Mawn, Carn Goedog and Rhosyfelin as hugely important archaeological sites and as essential components in "the Stonehenge story."  As we know, the hard evidence of Neolithic quarrying and of a  "lost giant circle of bluestones" is so thin that it should really be ignored -- but these guys are now in so deep that they cannot get out.

There is a lot of selling going on here, by MPP and his merry band (who want the glory that goes with spectacular discoveries), by the National Park (which wants its historical heritage to be better then everybody else's), and by the BBC, which wants more and more people to watch that appalling and outrageous documentary programme fronted by Alice Roberts and transmitted in February and again more recently.

It's all perfectly cynical, and is part of a calculated campaign to convince the media -- and the public at large -- that a fantastical myth invented by MPP is actually the truth.  There is much more to come......