[lmm]

> For the Ridgeway in particular, the claim from the podcast is that there is in fact no archaeological evidence that this was a prehistoric routeway, nor that it was a single coherent long-distance entity. The claim is that it appears this way because highland areas and ridges are better preserved, because they're generally not cultivated and are less subject to erosion, so the whole thing is just a selection effect.

I had a search around and came across four or five citations claiming that the ridgeway wasn't actually the long-distance path it's popularly known as... all of which were dead links. So I'm inclined to suspect that it really is exactly what it's thought to be; at a minimum I'd want to see a publicly available text for why it's not, rather than a podcast or paid book.