Hi Jane, I must have got mine a couple of years later than you from Amazon, remember Pilgrim getting cross if any one bought anything from the aforesaid and not from a reputable book dealer ;), but he went off into the wilds of New Zealand to sell books elsewhere- though as we know he kept in touch.
Reading the book, after all the archaeology books I had read, it was a complete revelation, I suppose the spiritual aspect of what Julian Cope was saying struck a chord, I read his essays again and again, and I think he pointed me in a direction in which I had to satisfy my curiosity about the old paganism and stones and the role of the early christian church.
Even today I cannot look at stones or the great long barrows without that gut feeling of awe at something we know so little about. The stones themselves are beautiful, perhaps because of their remote settings within natural landscapes.
A confession, like you I met someone else in the stones community, and when my books eventually arrived in his house, he was aghast that I had thrown away the hardback cover - ;( sorry Pilgrim too....
Moss x