The Modern Antiquarian

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It is the Las Vegas of stone circles, one that was built at the end of the period, to reflect what had gone before, as opposed to the wild, futuristic vision of its predecessors. In fact, Cope tells the reader, Stonehenge is unrepresentative, a late add-on -- "a fashioned Bronze Age power statement" erected "centuries after the height of megalithic building. He is a driven man, with a renowned discipline that transcends his musical output and spills rapidly on to the page. We moderns may too-often suffer from a mixing up of historical sequences, but better that, surely, than risk raising a population that is entirely not-arsed about its past. I’m a hypocrite to criticise, of course, and found it hard to resist posting a photograph on a recent trek, only to be besieged by requests to share the location.

Julian Cope presents Head Heritage - The Modern Antiquarian Julian Cope presents Head Heritage - The Modern Antiquarian

Like Edinburgh’s Hibernian, Celtic FC came into being during the late 1880s, in celebration of Scotland’s ancient Irish roots. This prehistory maps the indigenous pagan tradition of ancient Britain, an era in which the vast landscapes of Britain, from Cornwall to North Yorkshire, Orkney and North Wales, were united by megalithic structures that were built communally by pre-feudal societies. Of the countless sites visited, Cope has selected over 300 of the very best; photographing their remains and explaining fully their relationships with the landscape. This show presents an idea of a Celtic culture and identity that exists across a huge time scale, and over a far wider landscape than the traditional Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Brittany and Cornwall of the popular imagination. According to Cope, Avebury, in the Marlborough Downs, was as culturally significant as The Stooges, which gave me cause to investigate his claims further, and even now, 22 years later, I am still chipping away at this idea.His expertise is neither intimidating nor boring, and the brief snapshots of the many sites -- a page of pictures and writing for each, rarely more -- is just the right amount to get a general idea of these marvelous places. Today, as I arrive at the British Museum for a sneak preview of its new exhibition, Celts: Art and Identity, I’m immediately accosted by one of the exhibition supervisors: a 6ft 2in biker, who compliments me on my black “Neu! He wrote and self-published two books, Krautrock Sampler and Head On, both of which achieved cult status, as well as Reposessed and, most recently, The Modern Antiquarian, which has established itself as modern classic. His great skill is to make convincing arguments on whatever he happens to be enthusiastic about at the time.

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the first 150 pages of essays are brilliant, detailing mothergoddess worship in its beginning middle end forms, and providing a brilliant 300 page rainbow documented spine appendices that take you into detail of each site discussed in the essays and then some. Stranger still, the signpost was a rough, hand-painted thing quite at odds with the huge early bronze age megalithic tomb that awaited me. Comes with rare CD of Cope reading extracts from this book, duration over 20 mins~~Near Fine 1st ed 1999 hardback with slipcase. Perhaps the Celts venerated these Anglesey waters because they are overlooked by the rocky eminences of the great Holy Head – once the most sacred altar on the entire island.Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook).

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I once queued up for ages at a Julian Cope signing for Modern Antiquarian and eventually gave up and went to the pub. Compelling too is the St Peter’s Kirk Pictish-symbol stone discovered on the north-east coast of South Ronaldsay. poems accompany the photos and "ground notes" that julian pastes in for us, sometimes really impressing me with his impressions.A tome, while essentially a travel book, also includes essays look at prehistoric sites, remains, and surrounding areas as in the first temples ever built on the British Isles. When I first bought this book I had little knowledge of history, or landscape beyond the local, and had no interest in wearing cagoules or walking boots on a weekend. Julian Cope is quite inspiring in his dedication to ancient stone structures, and this book is roughly 50% enthusiastic amateur rambling and 50% solid, academic thoroughness. Only ruthless self-examination has allowed our tiny archipelago of islands their place in the modern world.