To celebrate and commemorate the late Dr Aubrey Burl, The Megalithic Portal and Ancient Sites Landscape Network (ASLaN) are proud to present: Stone Circles Grow Up - an illustrated talk recorded in the year 2000 in Long Compton, Oxfordshire, near the Rollright Stones
To my knowledge this is the only video of the great Dr Burl available anywhere online. He covers many topics with his characteristic wit, including stone circle archaeology, myths, archaeoastronomy and of course Stonehenge with his strong assertions that the Bluestones were not brought by humans from Wales, but by the natural process of glaciation.
We also managed to record the detailed Q&A session with the audience at the end. The quality isn't up to today's standards but it's still pretty clear, as is the audio.
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I've unearthed the original post announcing the talk from the Britarch mailing list:
Stone Circles Grow Up
This is the title of Aubrey Burl's talk on the afternoon of Saturday October 28th 2000 at the village hall, Long Compton. The talk and slide presentation looks at the study of stone circles from the days of the early antiquarians to the modern archaeologist. This is the talk that Dr Burl was scheduled to give at the ASLaN conference but which had to be postponed due to other commitments. The talk is in aid of ASLaN and The Rollright Trust. Places will be allocated first to those who attended the ASLaN conference and then to members. We are expecting quite a lot of interest in this rare talk by the great man himself so write in and book your seat now if you want to be sure of being there.
There were books, CDs and many other items on sale, including Dr Burl's latest. [which was at that time his key work on stone circles The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany]
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