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    The Basiliscoe Mercury 289


    TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


    Norway features in a couple of interesting stories. The usual graves, wrecks and queens are out in full force. Spring brings a number of tournament-related features, hopefully it will stop snowing soon, but a number of good books out to read if it doesn’t and is too cold to actually watch one…



    Arms and armour in the news


    Ancient arms and forts


    Article on the Rudham dagger

    http://museumcrush.org/the-giant-bronze-age-ritual-dagger-found-in-a-field-in-norfolk/


    Rock art, rock shelters and rock music!

    https://phys.org/news/2018-03-echoes-thought-sites-prehistoric-art.html


    Officer’s house found in Rome, or possibly a spy…

    https://phys.org/news/2018-03-rome-subway-uncovers-2nd-century-military.html

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...chaeologists-discover-barracks-may-have-used/


    Beasts of assorted varieties…


    Domesticating rabbits

    http://www.medievalists.net/2018/03/rabbits-first-domesticated-early-middle-ages/


    Grave stories


    Burned to death by the pharaohs?

    http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/winter-2018/article/three-skeletons-and-a-fiery-destruction


    Three bodies from Trondheim- not the latest Scandi-noir, but medieval archaeology

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5495345/pdf/pone.0180277.pdf


    In the lists


    Recreating the Field of the Cloth of Gold

    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/feature/lost-art-field-of-the-cloth-of-gold


    the Eglinton tournament

    http://www.medievalists.net/2018/03/romance-past-nineteenth-century-medievahttps://phys.org/news/2018-02-archaeologist-uncovers-hidden-history-conquistadors.html


    Threats to 16th century Spanish fort in South Carolina

    https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...-fort-in-south-carolina-threatened-by-erosion


    Visiting Culloden

    https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/culloden


    Cannons to the left, cannon to the right


    Culzean’s cannons- don’t trust the dating in the text!

    https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/a-blast-from-the-past


    Finding Trinconamalee’s Armstrongs

    http://www.sundaytimes.lk/180304/plus/a-boom-from-the-past-284140.html


    Update on Fort Cornwallis cannon

    https://www.thestar.com.my/metro/me...ns-at-countrys-largest-standing-fort-stirs-i/


    Now with extra cannonballs found now!

    http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/ca...4/9-cannonballs-unearthed-at-fort-cornwallis/


    And two more iron cannons located, this time in Aliabad

    https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...ard-get-asi-lifeline/articleshow/63227413.cms


    Gunnade goes on view in Wrangell Museum

    http://www.wrangellsentinel.com/sto...ed-for-display-in-museum-collection/5658.html


    Smartening up Vicksburg’s cannon

    http://www.vicksburgpost.com/2018/03/13/americorps-national-director-chips-in-locally/


    The supergun

    http://wonderfulengineering.com/saddam-husseins-supergun-made-iraq-center-spahttp://www.medievalists.net/2018/03/exploring-world-colourful-medieval-cuisine/


    Where Roger Bacon ate

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/oxford-university-archaeology-dig-secrets-http://museumcrush.org/how-beer-and-brewing-kept-the-country-house-runhttps://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/diet-of-the-ancient-mariner/


    Princesses and Amazons


    Discussing Christine de Pizan

    http://www.medievalists.net/2018/03/who-was-christine-de-pizan/


    Recreating fireworks for a Queen

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2018/03/07/lucy-worsleys-fireworks-tudor-queen-reviewhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-40275610


    Update on the fate of Amelia Earhart

    https://phys.org/news/2018-03-forensic-analysis-bones-amelia-earhart.html


    Nautical news


    What you can learn from ballast- more fascinating than it sounds!

    https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/how-bomb-debris-from-bristol-england-made-a-road-in-nyc/


    Diving in Cornwall –it’s not all pirates and Poldark!

    https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/remains-lost-forge-60-feet-1313759


    Discussion of Admiral Zheng He’s expeditions

    http://www.news.com.au/technology/s...s/news-story/0ed1e754cd927a78569129bf83770478


    Searching for the Cordelière and Regent, lost 1512

    http://www.newsweek.com/underwater-search-legendary-16th-century-warship-beginhttp://www.maritimeherald.com/2018/...y-sunken-corsair-beach-el-burrero-de-ingenio/


    American Revolution-era wreck exposed by storms off southern Maine

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...utionary-war-era-ship/?utm_term=.e4b053585d9f


    So not the Clotilda after all…

    http://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2018/03/wrehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-43296489


    Japanese Navy battleship Hiei found in the Solomon Islands

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...ip-hiei-may-have-located-solomon-islands/amp/



    Museum news and exhibitions


    News


    Puerto Rican museums regroup after disasters

    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/new...-puerto-rican-museums-regroup-after-hurricane


    New charging at the Met goes into practise

    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/the-met-s-new-admissions-fee-goes-into-effect


    London museums visitor numbers drop

    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/new...-to-two-of-london-s-major-museums-has-plunged


    Costs and profits of touring exhibitions

    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/burrell-collection


    Museum musings


    Emptying the shelves

    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/comment/the-mirage-of-riches-in-museums-vaults


    This week in statues- remembering the memorials

    https://www.theguardian.com/culture...orials-to-the-less-known-immortalised-project


    And students are doing it for themselves

    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/new...sts-take-creative-action-against-gun-violence


    Conservation corner


    Bayeux tapestry update

    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/bayeux-tapestry-conserved-in-london

    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/new...ed-to-borrow-the-bayeux-tapestry-twice-before


    Conservingstandards of the Scots Guards

    https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/flags-flying-again


    Conserving iron shot from the sea

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43334700


    How much of conservators’ work should be visible & how much hidden?: http://theartnewspaper.com/news/how...ould-be-visible-and-how-much-should-be-hidden


    Medieval altarpieces from Norway and not Lubeck?

    https://phys.org/news/2018-03-reveals-middle-ages-altarpieces.html


    Saving Syrian antiquities

    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/comment/we-need-to-invest-in-people


    Objects


    Part of wheellock pistol found in Colorado

    http://denver.cbslocal.com/2018/02/27/gun-western-slope-mesa-county/


    Still life with armour for sale

    http://artdaily.com/news/102998/Rec...ffered-at-Koller-Auctions-Zurich#.WqD84zEiF9A


    Pair of Whitehaven pistols

    http://www.nwemail.co.uk/Would-you-...-Duel-ee03eb0e-87e3-43ed-a49b-0405ac382414-ds


    You can own the swivel gun of Maximus Decimus Meridius

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...-sale-Russell-Crowes-3-6-million-auction.html


    Exhibitions


    Ravilious in Compton Verney

    http://artdaily.com/news/103234/Com...ps-with-luminary-British-artists#.Wqza6zHA99A


    15th century manuscripts in Dublin

    http://artdaily.com/news/103075/Exh...f-fifteenth-century-illumination#.WqT66TEiF9A


    Tintoretto in Paris

    https://www.boutiquesdemusees.fr/fr/boutique/special/5173-tintoret-naissance-dun-genie/1/


    High society in Amsterdam

    http://artdaily.com/news/103097/Exh...-informal-life-of-the-well-to-do#.WqZFizEiF9A

    https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en


    Italian renaissance at Worcester

    http://artdaily.com/news/103090/Exp...earch-on-Italian-panel-paintings#.WqZGQzEiF9A


    Murillo in Washington

    http://artdaily.com/news/102882/Nat...rth-of-Bartolom--Esteban-Murillo#.WpqW6DEiF9A


    Rembrandt and India in LA

    http://artdaily.com/news/103117/The...dt-and-the-Inspiration-of-India-#.WquUDTEiF9A


    Books


    Bernt Rundberget: Tales of the Iron Bloomery Ironmaking in South-eastern Norway - Foundation of Statehood c. AD 700-1300

    http://www.brill.com/products/book/tales-iron-bloomery


    Hans Lecküchner (trans. by Jeffrey L. Forgeng) The Art of Swordsmanship

    (new in paperback)

    https://boydellandbrewer.com/i-the-art-of-swordsmanship-i-by-hans-leck-252-chner.html


    Mike Loades: The Crossbow

    https://ospreypublishing.com/store/military-history/upcoming-books/available-this-month/the-crossbow


    Julian Hale: The RAF 1918–2018

    https://www.bloomsbury.com/non-fiction/history/heritage/


    Two books on the Indonesia massacres

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...n-army-indonesian-genocide-jess-melvinreviews


    Online book


    Edited by Margot Finn and Kate Smith: The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857

    https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/the-east-india-company-at-home



    Popular culture


    The Armed Man

    https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/100-Days-To-Peace-tickets/artist/5255853


    Tower of London poppies

    https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...ower-of-london-poppies-paul-cummins-tom-piper


    The Square – satire on the art and museum worlds

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...view-ruben-ostlund-elisabeth-moss-cannes-2017



    Events


    Jousting in Leeds

    https://royalarmouries.org/events/events-at-leeds


    English heritage at Easter

    http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/easter/


    Conferences- calls for papers


    ICOMAM IN Slovenia

    http://network.icom.museum/icomam/news/detail/article/koblenz-conference/


    Sales, fairs and auctions


    Hermann Historica preview

    https://www.hermann-historica.de/en



    Websites and downloads


    National Trust for Scotland

    https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/a-new-website-for-the-national-trust-for-scotland


    Shipwrecks of St Malo

    http://www.epaves.corsaires.culture.fr/mobile/en/annexe/intro-Home


    1066 etc Castles, Templars, chivalry & medieval wars

    http://www.medievalists.net/2018/03/idea-castle-medieval-england/

    http://www.medievalists.net/2018/03/templar-lands-lincolnshire-early-fourteenth-century/

    http://www.medievalists.net/2018/03...livre-de-bouciquaut-works-christine-de-pizan/

    http://www.medievalists.net/2018/03/medieval-geopolitics-two-types-warfare-medieval-europe/


    Finally don’t forget we are putting the next ICOMAM Magazine together soon- send in your contributions! You can see earlier issues here

    http://network.icom.museum/icomam/publications/the-magazine/



    This fortnight I tweeted pictures from my visit to London

    https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe



    Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown –18 March 2018


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