The Preseli Roman Road -- a hypothesis in search of some evidence

This is a strange article -- thanks to Dave for sending it to me.  Some weeks ago we covered the advance press release, which as also very strange........

The Golden Road: Fact, Fable, Flemish, or ‘Flavian’?
Mark Merrony, Antiqvvs, Summer 2022, pp 25-34

https://brian-mountainman.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-malignant-magic-of-stonehenge-how.html

Anyway, in this piece Mark Merrony discusses the documentary and "folk memory" aspects of the ancient trackwasy along the Preseli ridge, variously describes as the Golden Road, the Flemings Way, a Roman Road a a few more things besides.  It's a strange article, which could well have been cut in half -- since most of it consists of a somewhat self-indulgent description of springtime ramblings with a mountain bike across the landscape, with the author searching for depressions, sunken lanes, trackways, and anything that might indicate the presence of a Roman Road.  There are some nice photos and there are indeed many short sections of old rutted trackways, some of which I know well.  But nowhere does the author show that these are anything other than segments of ancient  routeways including bits of the old drovers' routes and also forestry tracks created at the times of forestry planting, maintenance and harvesting.  Heavy military vehicles used this area for training during WW2.  Some "sunken" sections have been deeepened by serving as streambeds during periods of heavy rain. No evidence is presented to show that the trackway was a single continuous route; no evidence is presented to show that it was paved or properly engineered; and no evidence is presented of a Roman connection.

Much speculation, made worse by gratuitous mentions of bluestones and bluestone haulage, again on the basis of no evidence whatsoever.  

Perhaps Mark will come back to us again when he actually has some evidence?