The Mumbles giant erratic -- progress report

There is good progress on the analyses of the two samples (one sample originally, but cut up to eliminate weathered material and to allow analyses using two different techniques, in different labs) taken by Phil Holden from the famous erratic which he discovered in Limeslade Bay.  (Actually Rob Ixer claimed that we were lying when we said we had said we had sampled the erratic -- which was really rather silly of him.  What would be the point misleading anybody on this?  But one gets used to a certain amount of silliness in all things pertaining to Stonehenge.........)

Anyway, the work is going well, and we should soon be in a position to see the geology reports.

On a related matter, I notice that there have been 1353 reads of this post on the blog:

https://brian-mountainman.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-mumbles-giant-erratic-sound-and-fury.html

In general, I count 500 reads as a "popular post" -- so there seem to be rather a lot of people who are showing an interest in this one, in spite of Rob Ixer pretending that it was all much ado about nothing.

And what intrigues me even more is the fact that the Limeslade giant erratic, on the edge of the Gower,  is on the other side of the Bristol Channel from that famous assemblage of erratic boulders -- great and small -- around Saunton and Croyde on the North Devon Coast.  That all makes sense -- if the Irish Sea Glacier was pushing eastwards, in one glaciation or several, of course it would have dumped a trail of erratics on both flanks.  But of course most of the erratics will have been dumped in the channel that is now submerged.