thesweetcheat
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Re: Aubrey Burl RIP
Apr 16, 2020, 17:52
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Zariadris wrote: Thanks tjj for bringing this news to our attention. I'm not sure when I would have heard of it otherwise, most likely long after the fact. I'm most grateful to you.
Same here, it's been nice to see so many positive memories of him, here and elsewhere.
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tjj
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Edited Apr 17, 2020, 12:34
Re: Aubrey Burl RIP
Apr 16, 2020, 18:59
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Zariadris wrote: Thanks tjj for bringing this news to our attention. I'm not sure when I would have heard of it otherwise, most likely long after the fact. I'm most grateful to you.
Many thanks Zariadris and Thesweetcheat of course - always encouraging and enthusiastic.
All the best to everyone x
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moss
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Edited Apr 22, 2020, 10:10
Re: Aubrey Burl RIP
Apr 22, 2020, 09:11
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Again on F/B through The Prehistory Guys, Michael Bott and Rupert Soskin have made a tribute to Aubrey Burl - A Short Appreciation of Aubrey Burl .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP3u1aUzM2Q
I think what comes out of this video is the fact that Burl was meticulous in his recordings of the stone circles. I always remembering him writing about the wild purple aquilegia he found on one of the sites in Ireland. Also the story that the Ash tree was the Yggdasil Tree of Odin fame and from which he hung for nine days. If you counted the buds opening in spring, there should be nine, not true sadly I have counted 11 or 13.
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tjj
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Edited Apr 22, 2020, 21:11
Re: Aubrey Burl RIP
Apr 22, 2020, 20:08
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Thank you for that Moss, have listened to it all the way though. Michael Bott and Rupert Soskin a pair of gentlemen I would say. The other heart-felt and authentic tribute I read was by Wiltshire based historian Brian Edwards.
I would like to be able to say Burl's The Stone Circles of the British Isles was the first book I read on the subject but it wouldn't be true. It may well be the last the way things are going as I only acquired back in January - by pure chance in a second hand book shop.
As I said in an earlier post, Julian Cope's book was my big influence. After that came The Secrets of the Avebury Stones by Terence Meaden who is also quite elderly now but still going strong.
Then there are all the people, past and present, on this forum - too numerous to mention by name but a few do stand out. Yourself being one of them.
All the best x
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Zariadris
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Re: Aubrey Burl RIP
Apr 23, 2020, 09:51
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This just in from Andy B. of the Megalithic Portal:
RIP Dr Aubrey Burl, Exclusive Video Talk Premier from Year 2000, 7pm Thursday
Country: Topic: Events
As you may have heard, Dr Aubrey Burl sadly passed away a couple of weeks ago. To celebrate and commomorate his life we are proud to present an Exclusive Talk and Q&A with Dr Burl that I recorded in the year 2000 when he gave a talk to ASLaN and the Rollrights Trust in Long Compton Village Hall. To my knowledge this is the only video available of a talk by Dr Burl online anywhere. I've decided to run it as a Premiere Video Presentation at 7pm tomorrow (Thursday 23rd) so please do watch it with me and take part in the live chat alongside where I'll try to answer questions.
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146414485
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thesweetcheat
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The Quietus
Apr 23, 2020, 11:17
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Lovely tribute in The Quietus, with music from various TMA contributors:
https://thequietus.com/articles/28150-aubrey-burl-obituary
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Daniel
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Re: Aubrey Burl RIP
Apr 23, 2020, 11:18
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https://thequietus.com/articles/28150-aubrey-burl-obituary
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tjj
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Edited Apr 23, 2020, 19:46
Re: The Quietus
Apr 23, 2020, 13:54
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thesweetcheat wrote:
Thanks for this A, and Daniel also for the same link. There is a lot to take in and I will have to go back to it - have just watched Julian Cope's episode linking Roman roads with prehistoric sites (in this case Silbury), jumping around on the Mother's Jam in conversation with himself "I once found 27 different types of mushroom here in an hour" and his fascinating retelling of the Polisher Stone demonstrated with a beautiful polished axe-head.
Quote:
"Cope pays generous, near-reverential tribute to Burl in his own megalith masterpiece – indeed, the only topic with (slightly) more index references than his 40, is… Avebury, with 43!"
So I am sure those programmes, the TMA book, and this very website stand a a tribute to Aubrey Burl.
Edited by tjj
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konaman
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Re: Aubrey Burl RIP
Jun 22, 2020, 21:58
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been a while since I popped in here, & just saw this sad news. I had the pleasure of meeting Aubrey, & him signing some books in a curiously childish hand. Completely without guile, a lovely man, a true scholar, RIP.
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moss
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Re: Aubrey Burl RIP
Jun 23, 2020, 09:37
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There was an obituary in the end by Mike Pitts on the 12th June, it appeared in the Guardian........ I'm glad he was remembered.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jun/12/aubrey-burl-obituary
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