Perfectly straightforward piece of news management -- according to the Times, "archaeologists have announced....." Probably MPP himself put it out. The D Mail and Telegraph pieces have been worked on for some time -- this was no whispered leak. Maybe Profs W and D are about to announce their latest fairy story, and MPP had to get in first? Anyway, what's new? Wasn't this all in that TV prog about West Amesbury etc a few months back?
No point in getting apoplectic. I thought all archaeologists were supposed to be mad, anyway?