Stonehenge and Capel Cana

Part of the Cana Chapel stone depot at Glan yr Afon?  Have these stones actually come from Carn Goedog?  An hypothesis in need of some testing.....

There is a further thought arising from my post about the links between Carn Goedog, Glan yr Afon and Capel Cana.  This is to do with sacred structures, devotion and expenditure of energy.  Bear with me... 

Here is the info about the chapel (sadly now deserted) in Felindre Farchog, on the A487 road between Newport and Eglwyswrw.

https://www.jlb2011.co.uk/walespic/churches/felindre-f1.htm

It was rebuilt in 1857 by its faithful and independent congregation, made up of very devout people who were also aware of their financial and manpower limitations.  To misquote an old doggerel:

The Cana deacons built a church
The front looks like an abbey,
But thinking they could fool the Lord
They’ve built the back part shabby.

So they put very posh spotted dolerite stone on the front facade only.  This must have been down to both financial and labour constraints.  This stone is incredibly difficult to work, and back at the stone collecting depot at Glan yr Afon (according to my latest theory) the men trying to shape the rectangular building blocks had clearly had enough of it by the time the facade was finished, and decided to abandon the project in favour of something cheaper and easier for walls 2, 3 and 4.  The message is this: devotion can motivate you to want to do something, but when it comes to the practicalities, you may never actually get the job finished.

Back to Stonehenge.  MPP and colleagues seem to think that the religious or spiritual fervour of the builders was sufficient to encourage -- and even bring about -- the initial construction of a "lost circle" at Waun Mawn and then the incorporation of assorted bluestones into stone settings arc Stonehenge. Then throw in the fabulous stone transporting expeditions for good measure.  The trouble is that you cannot prove motivation or desire from an assortment of stones on the ground, and another problem is that you cannot find any evidence that stands up to scrutiny.  The two stone types assumed to have had "significance" -- namely spotted dolerite and foliated rhyolite -- were not used in West Wales preferentially to any other stone type in the creation of megalithic structures.  There is no reason to assume that they were spiritually special at Stonehenge either, although it's clear that spotted dolerite pillars were shaped for use in the bluestone horseshoe.  Was that because the spotted dolerite was accorded special reverence, or simply because elongated spotted dolerite stones were easier to fashion into the shapes required?  We will probably never know.........

So we come back to the conclusion of many who have studied Stonehenge over the years. The monument was never finished.  The builders did not need to obtain stones from West Wales since they were already within striking distance of the site chosen for Stonehenge.  They used whatever they could find, of all rock types, as the monument evolved through many phases.  And eventually the stones ran out, and they gave up and walked away.  Once again, no matter what the spiritual motivation might have been, the final thing that decided the fate of the monument was a simple bit of cost-benefit analysis.  The same rule applied, very many years later, to the building of Capel Cana in Felindre Farchog.