Where next for those who seek the Holy Grail?

I exchange messages with all sorts of people, and in certain quarters right now there is a good deal of innocent pleasure to be had from speculation about the next wacky fantasy that is going to be dreamed up by MPP,  Ixer, Bevins and their fellow searchers who hunt the Holy Grail.......

Rumour has it that MPP will not be conducting a dig this year in the neighbourhood, but that some other research will be going on instead.  That is intriguing in itself, and presumably means that some charitable organisation with more money than sense has put up yet another grant to fund fieldwork involving the use of some high-tech equipment. Well, it's better than spending it on GM crops or nuclear weapons.   It is also rumoured that MPP will be giving his usual September lecture over at the Bluestone Brewery -- probably to raise funds for the Air Ambulance, so I won't complain about that worthy intention.  But what on earth is he going to say to interest the punters who want progress reports with an emphasis on "progress"?  Last year he really had nothing to report, and this year he will have even less, and will have to admit major interpretative errors over the last few years.  Will he apologise?  I have my doubts.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349439694_The_Lost_Circle_at_Waun_Mawn_a_commentary_updated

Proto-Stonehenge and the Lost Circle have been shown never to have existed -- at least at Waun Mawn -- and two hugely expensive and unnecessary geological projects have shown that Stone 62 never was at Waun Mawn and that there's nothing there to show any sort of a link with Stonehenge.  So where next?  The Holy Grail hunters are in so deep now that they cannot get out, and we know already that MPP still insists that a giant circle of monoliths was planned for Waun Mawn, even if it was never completed, and that eight bluestone monoliths were taken from there and placed somewhere else.  

One of my contacts predicts that the research team will continue with geophysical investigations designed to find another circle which might have provided a home for the "eight missing bluestones".  Another predicts that they will search for traces of quarrying at Cerrig Lladron, from which they think the Waun Mawn stones must have been "fetched".  Another thinks that there will be an extended quarry hunt, based on the very unfortunate discovery (from their point of view) that the bluestone fragments (of all sizes) at Stonehenge have come from at least 30 different locations.  Yet another thinks there will be more detailed and dense geological sampling designed to bring even greater precision to the provenancing of the bluestone monoliths and debitage fragments found at Stonehenge.  Watch this space.......

Bring it on.  On the geological front, I am intrigued by the torrent of geological papers which show unfailingly that bluestone groups (spotted dolerites, unspotted dolerites, rhyolites, ashes, sandstones) are much more complex than originally thought, and demonstrate the presence of more and more fragments whose provenances are quite unknown.  

One day the researchers will all be forced to admit that most of the bluestones at Stonehenge are simply abraded and weathered igneous erratics, that they never were quarried and never were carried by their heroic ancestors along the prehistoric A40 road.  Hysteria will subside, mythology will be put in its rightful place, and science will prevail.  Thus trust in academia will be restored.    Amen.