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Sunday 11 December 2022

The consequences of misinformation

 



See what happens when archaeologists make vastly inflated claims and invent complex narratives based on dodgy fieldwork and thoroughly unscientific analysis?  This is why I keep on at them and ask, over and again, for accuracy and caution..........

This is something I found on the photo site called Pinterest.

A brief comment for the 2.8 million Daily Mail readers who have presumably been led astray by this sort of tosh.  Not one of the Stonehenge monoliths has come from Rhosyfelin.  One of the broken stumps -- now invisible and buried -- looks as if it might have come from this site, but that is currently just speculation.  There are lots of broken fragments of foliated rhyolite in the sediments at Stonehenge -- and they might have come from Rhosyfelin or somewhere nearby.  The rest, as they say, is fantasy.........

1 comment:

Tony Hinchliffe said...

Probably self - publicist geologist Rob Ixer is the origin of this Daily Mail article.