Julian Cope on Celts: Art and Identity at the British Museum

Musician and antiquarian Julian Cope gives us a tour of the exhibition, Celts: Art and Identity at the British Museum in London.
He show us his favourite prehistoric artefact of all time, the Gundestrup cauldron, which shows a casting of a huge figure dipping a man upside down into a cauldron

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[frannsh]

His mum was my primary teacher, she was extremely inspiring and an amazing teacher. Seems Julian has inherited her gifts..

[athenassigil]

The most erudite and yet eccentric Julian Cope, love him! I also bought his book The Modern Antiquarian, brilliant stuff! Gundestrup is also my favorite artifact from history...

[keith-leecastle]

BBC please give Julian Cope his own program....Never gonna happen I know.

[leopardcat]

Extremely knowledgeable wise man. The Modern Antiquarian.

[greentorm]

Julian's lovely, would like to hear him give a talk in Liverpool

[cwmbran-city]

Julian Cope was my gateway drug into archaeology. 20years later, countless digs, finds, locations, cultural horizons, inter-disciplinary collaborations & (i gotta say this) ruined knees later, life is so much sweeter for it. Diolch yn fawr iawn, Arch-Drude.

[baco]

I didn't know Julian Cope. I heard about him on an italian radio show last week. This man must be on my same frequency. I like everything he does. He even wrote a book about Krautrock (you can see a Neu! t-shirt under his jacket).

[sparx]

This is brilliant, cope has always been out there, maybe it's time to bring him in and make a proper historical account of the celts. Julian, brilliant stuff mate.

[baldieman]

Mad as a box of frogs but brilliant and unique.

[adrianions]

Hope your well mann!copey! seen you live a few times you are brilliant! Love your workx

[tobysmith]

Thank you Julian, for this Elegant Chaos.... xx

[sawtoothiandi]

the moral of the story is never pict a fight with a scot..🥁

[Pianoscript]

Please visit ergoth.com I have important information about the Gundestrup Cauldron: hint: those are not 4 horses but 2 horses and 2 unicorns. Lucas Cranach the Elder says hi. clang clang.

[danhunt]

The background music is from runescape 😁

[impalaman]

So I suppose razors were only available in the Mediterranean world? No one in northern Europe had ever thought of a way to get rid of their whiskers?

[mtbmac]

He knows his onions, does our Julian....

[dclark]

The Gundestrup Cauldron depicts the antediluvian survivors of the worldwide flood. It has 4 men and 4 women which is Noah, his 3 sons and their wives.

[Original_Dalvik]

0:59 Julian gets it wrong, yes the Scots lived in Northern Ireland at the time but Scotland itself was ruled by the Picts, the Scots that came over from Ireland were interbreed with the dominant Picts, who then took the name Scots and called the country Scotland.

[budte]

We have been an evolving, but single culture. The multiculutursim that has been enforced against those who can call themselves native, is the end of us. Literally.

[tednruth]

Mik Mak Mok mok mok blllwlelala zing zang