Basiliscoe Mercury 295

The Basiliscoe Mercury295


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


Still having trouble accessing US newspapers, but we do have some Canadian stories instead. A number of features on ancient arms and armour, reports from a mass grave from one of Napoleon’s battles in Austria, and an important artillery exhibition in Virginia. And the latest ICOMAM MAGAZINE is online, too.


Arms and armour in the news


Ancient arms and forts


Feature on Bronze Age axes

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/never-a-dull-moment-the-lives-of-early-bronze-age-axes.htm


Bronze Age weapons and chariots found in Indian burial pits

https://www.business-standard.com/a...opper-bronze-age-chariots-118060401060_1.html


Corinthian helmet found in south-west Russia

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-n...an-helmet-discovered-in-southwest-russia.html


Emperor Constantine's giant finger found in the Louvre

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/emperor-constantine-s-finger-found-in-the-louvre


Helmets from Hadrian’s helmet

https://museumcrush.org/the-rare-relics-that-reveal-roman-helmet-fashions-at-hadrians-wall/


Excavations at Burghead, a Pictish fort

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotl...chaeology&link_location=live-reporting-story#


Whaling in the Dark Ages

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/06...ern-scandinavia-may-date-back-to-6th-century/


Grave stories


Death at the end of the Roman Empire- involves arrow heads and burning…

https://news.nationalgeographic.com...aria-skeletons-archaeology-science/?beta=true


InvestigatingDenmark’s bog bodies- spoiler- they weren’t gay…

http://sciencenordic.com/no-evidence-europe’s-bog-bodies-were-gay


Update on the amputated Lombard body in North Italy

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/06/survival-to-amputation-in-pre-antibiotic-era-a-case-stuhttps://museumcrush.org/what-happened-to-the-scottish-soldiers-found-in-a-mass-grave-in-durham/


Through the arrow-slit . . .


Caergwrle Castle, Wales, taken into government care

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/06/cadw-to-take-over-caergwrle-castle/


Plans for newvisitor centre at Clifford’s Tower in York abandoned

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...tower-visitor-centre-plan-scrapped-mound-york


Italian castle for sale

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/05/italian-castle-designed-by-brunelleschi-for-sale/


Café Basiliscoe –our new drinks menu


3000 year old olive oil from Sicily

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/uosf-ioo053018.php


Byzantine wine

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/isr...-in-excavation-of-water-reservoir/2018/06/10/


Blackbeard’s gunpowder rum cocktail

https://vinepair.com/articles/blackbeard-gunpowder-rum-cocktails/


Miscellany


Henry VIII’s diary

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/06http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/archaeologists-start-new-hunt-fabled-lost-colony-new-world


Long update on Jamestown- includes weapons

https://wydaily.com/local-news/2018...lar-under-church-catches-experts-by-surprise/


Kirkcudbight Trades hold shoot for the “Siller Gun” as prize

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport...ated-trades-kirkcudbright-hold-shoot-12626049


Investigating Fort Kaskaskia Illinois

https://news.siu.edu/2018/05/053118-unknown-american-fort-found-by-archaeological-field-school.php


From the front –mainly Jacobites


Investigating Glen Shiel battle site

https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/...-where-spanish-joined-the-jacobites-1-4753199


Update on Culloden field

https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/concerns-over-new-threat-to-culloden-conservation-zone


Mass grave from May 1809 Battle of Aspern-Essling in Austria uncovered

https://www.livescience.com/62774-mass-grave-napoleonic-wars.html


Cannons to the left, cannon to the right


Never know what you will find in Bishop's Stortford: a trench mortar? https://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/news/hertfordshire-news/magnet-fisher-describehttps://tvo.org/article/current-affairs/one-toronto-archaeologists-potentially-explosivhttp://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/focus/20180603/anthony-gambrill-making-mad-jhttp://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-maharashtra-government-guns-for-gps-tags-for-cannons-2621811


Bollard in Halifax, Canada, gets a new lease of life

https://www.halifaxtoday.ca/remember-this/remember-this-downtown-dartmouths-sterns-corner-950653


Yellow springs Ohio-restoration of Rodman cannon on war memorial

https://ysnews.com/news/2018/05/a-m...l-cannon-restored-rededicated-after-110-years


Graffiti on Derry Walls and historic cannons causes damage of £2,000 https://www.derrynow.com/news/court...-graffiti-citys-walls-historic-cannons/228990?


Alamo cannon on the way back from conservation,

https://www.statesman.com/news/loca...astrop-way-back-alamo/qDzCJZH6vRTfCElTOGqHfM/


Cannons from Castillo de San Marcos headed to Texas for rust removal https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/...os-headed-to-texas-for-rust-removal/765015284


Into the 20th century


Kill the Kaiser! (Sure to be on our screens in a mini-series soon…)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...g-kill-germany-emperor-boulogne-a8375996.html


Excavations inCrete in WW2

http://www.ekathimerini.com/229156/gallery/ekathimerini/life/wehrmacht-excavations-on-occupied-crete


Nautical news


Story of the Hollandia and Victoria

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...toria-voc-hollandia-anniversary-a8368926.html


East Indianman President found off Loe bar

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/divers-find-remains-lost-treasure-1655094


Update on HMSInvincible

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-44357695


Worth following on twitter because so much is coming up on an hourly basis!

https://twitter.com/DanPascoe79


Update on Le Dragon

https://www.admat.org.uk/le-dragon-july-2018-project-background/


Gun from the Bounty sold in Scotland

https://www.scotsman.com/news/odd/c...after-turning-up-on-scottish-estate-1-4752849


Feature on the divers involved in the Slaves Wrecks Project

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/florida-keys/article212848494.html


WW1 HMS Hermes shipwreck in Dover Strait looted

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-44361799


Feature on the divers involved in the Slaves Wrecks Project

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/florida-keys/article212848494.html



Museum news and exhibitions


News


Visit to the Mongolian Military Museum

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mongolian-military-museum


Visiting the Mary Rose and Vasa museums

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/05/mary-rose-henry-viii-flagship/

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/06/the-vasa-gustav-ii-adolfs-warship/


What India wants back from the UK

https://www.news18.com/news/india/spell-out-steps-to-bring-back-kohinoor-diamond-https://www.apollo-magazine.com/the-looted-ethiopian-artefacts-that-ended-up-in-uk-museums/


Angola recovers six artefacts looted from museum during civil war: http://theartnewspaper.com/news/angola-recovers-six-artefacts-looted-from-museum-during-civil-war


New museums


New museum at Westminster Abbey

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/new...ty-new-museum-reveals-the-best-view-in-europe


New gallery on life aboard Polaris at Gosport

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...cret-life-onboard-britains-nuclear-submarines


Museum developments


Interesting discussion on the scientist as historian (mentions Partington)https://blog.oup.com/2018/06/scienhttp://drexel.edu/now/archive/2018/...ind-The-Scenes-At-Philadelphia-Museum-Of-Art/


Conservation Corner


Conservation as you watch

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/all-eyes-on-van-der-weyden-project


Cleaning feathers by laser

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/why-using-lasers-to-clean-feathers-is-not-a-bird-brained-idea


Objects


Portrait of Sir Francis Drake

http://artdaily.com/news/105301/The-pirate-that-saved-England-at-Bonhams-Old-Masters-salhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/canova...e-very-model-of-a-lost-masterpiece-1528542000


Piece about the Hamilton-Burr duelling pistols

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a21083805/hamilton-dueling-pistols/


What was looted from the White House

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28833238


Sitting Bull’s flintlock

http://artdaily.com/news/105334/Hud...ull-leads-Heritage-Auctions-sale#.WyDXZTG0V9A


Exhibitions


Tate Britain to host exhibition on Burne Jones over the winter

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/new...o-lend-works-to-tate-britain-burne-jones-show

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...sues-paintings-united-first-time-tate-britain


While Boilly: Scenes of Parisian Life will be on show in the National Gallery

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...-boilly-paintings-survived-raid-first-uk-show


Indian artefacts in London

http://artdaily.com/news/105276/Daz...n-display-at-The-Queen-s-Gallery#.Wx40xDG0V9A


Tolkein in Oxford

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/31/drawn-into-tolkiens-world-exhibition


A woman traveller’s middle eastern collection in Bath

http://artdaily.com/news/105344/The...collection-of-Middle-Eastern-art#.WyIbfDG0V9A


18th century artillery in Yorktown

https://www.historyisfun.org/artillery/


Books


Pamela Porter: Warfare in Medieval Manuscripts (New edition)

https://www.bl.uk/shop/warfhttps://www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/seals-and-status-power-of-objects.html


Leonardo Da Vinci and His Circle

https://www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/leonardo-da-vinci-and-his-circle.html


John Langellier: The "Trapdoor" Springfield- From the Little Bighorn to San Juan Hill

https://ospreypublishing.com/store/...available-this-month/the-trapdoor-springfield


Susan Jenkins and Tony Trowles: The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries, Westminster Abbey

http://www.scalapublishers.com/title.aspx?category=new-titles&subcategory=&id=3898


Myles Campbell and William Derham, eds., Making Majesty: The Throne Room at Dublin Castle, A Cultural History

https://enfilade18thc.com/2018/05/30/new-book-making-majesty-the-throne-room-at-dublin-castle/


Piece about the Rijksmuseum’s Country series

http://artdaily.com/news/105187/New...tes-Rijksmuseum-s-Country-Series#.WxjrJjGG99A


Online Book


Virtual books in the British Library

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/virtualbooks/index.html



Popular culture


Antony Beevor chooses his favourite war films- and some to avoid!

https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...atest-war-movie-ever-and-the-ones-i-cant-bear


Events


Diary Dates


14-15 July Solingen

Sword festival

http://www.klingenmuseum.de/_english/dkm/schwertfestival/generelle-informationen.html


Conferences


ICOMAM in Slovenia

http://network.icom.museum/icomam/news/http://wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=75965&copyownerid=115929


Sales Fairs and auctions


Preview: Morphy Auctions

http://artdaily.com/news/105278/Mor...llections-with-Firearms-Auction-#.Wx41wTG0V9A


19 Jun 2018San Francisco

Antique Arms & Armour and Modern Sporting Guns

http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24872/


27 June 2018 London

Arms & Armour and Militaria

http://www.thomasdelmar.com/


Websites and downloads


Latest ICOMAM Magazine out- Japanese armour, Danish cannon, Dutch history, Middle East museums and much, much more!

http://network.icom.museum/fileadmin/user_upload/minisites/icomam/Magazine/Final_May_2018_lores.pdf


Finally


This fortnight I enjoyed keeping up with the Invincible! https://twitter.com/MASTArchaeology

https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe


Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown –15 June 2018


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