Basiliscoe Mercury 314

Better late than never—-

The Basiliscoe Mercury 314


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water, another sword emerges- this time in a river in Brazil! Closely followed by the spy whale…. Otherwise dead crusaders, Bonnie Prince Charlie, medieval bombs from China and Scottish firearms.


Arms and armour in the news


Ancient arms


Investigating a Pictish fort

https://www.archaeology.org/news/7608-190424-pictish-defensive-wall


Lots of weapons deposited in London’s lost rivers

https://museumcrush.org/museum-of-l...the-story-of-the-citys-forgotten-lost-rivers/


16th century sword found in Brazil river (goodpictures)

https://www.gazetaonline.com.br/not...FT7luNhpYmo-m4RWMK0kTycgaTlj8zxsaSGf989iq1AmU


Beasts of assorted varieties…


What have the Romans done for us, apart from the rabbits…

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...s-brought-rabbits-to-britain-experts-discover


Chariot racing as a career in Ancient Rome

https://www.livescience.com/65258-ancient-rome-chariot-superstar.html


The name’s Dick, Moby Dick….

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...could-be-russian-weapon-say-norwegian-experts


Grave stories


Dead crusaders

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/wtsi-cml041719.php


Investigating a massacre in 17th century Alaska

https://www.livescience.com/65282-legendary-massacre-dart-game.html


Bonnie Prince Charlie’s death mask

https://www.museumsassociation.org/...nto-digital-likeness-of-bonnie-prince-charlie


And Bonnie Prince Charlie in life, too!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-48038995


Cannons to the left, cannon to the right


If true, this is exciting news! Chinesearchaeologists find remains of earliest bomb from 13th century

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-04/25/c_138008074.htm


Australian community restore their trophy guns for Anzac Day

https://www.communitynews.com.au/mi...rling-square-guildford-in-time-for-anzac-day/


Café Basiliscoe


Beer of the Incas

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/fm-tst041219.php


Artic beer

http://artdaily.com/news/113160/British-Arctic-expedition-bottle-of-ale-comes-to-auction-144-yeahttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smit...ing-private-lives-chinas-empresses-180971958/

And the death of an English queen

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...ague-claims-letter-found-in-national-archives


Queen’s apartments at Versailles re-open

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-47928976/marie-antoinette-s-versailles-apahttps://museumcrush.org/this-lavishly-embroidered-goan-bedspread-once-belonged-to-james-ii/


Nautical news


Spain’s response to the Spanish Armada

https://elpais.com/cultura/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...found-netherlands-oldest-shipwreck-180972024/



Museum news and exhibitions


News


Canadian Museums funding First Nations initiative

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/new...d1m-programme-to-recognise-indigenous-culture


Heugh Battery Museum, Hartlepool, could close unless £5,000 is raisedhttps://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/n...-war-museum-could-close-unless-5000-is-raised


Visitors just flying into the RAF Museum

http://artdaily.com/news/113042/Roy...numbers-grow-to-almost-a-million#.XMFr_THsZ9A


UK Museum of the Year includes HMS Caroline

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/museum-of-the-year-award-shortlist


New museums


Wallace Monument re-opens

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/f...pens-to-visitors-after-500000-transformation/


Museum musings


Human remains and British museums

https://www.theguardian.com/culture...ant-their-ancestors-back-from-british-museums


Conservation corner


Conserving & cataloguing the firearms for National Trust for Scotland https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/have-dowel-will-travel


Objects


Caravaggio’s Medusa shield goes to Munich

http://artdaily.com/news/112901/Car...-loaned-for-exhibition-in-Munich#.XLrdOTHsZ9A


And Henry VIII’s shield coming up for sale?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6932259/Rare-Tudor-gun-shield-used-Henry-VIIIs-bodyguarhttps://cilisos.my/this-british-fisherman-found-an-ancient-weapon-that-might-be-a-keris/


Exhibitions


18th century weapons in Williamsburg

http://artdaily.com/news/112925/18t...Museums-of-Colonial-Williamsburg#.XLrcYjHsZ9A


Books


Maximilian I

https://shop.khm.at/en/shop/detail/?shop%5BshowItem%5D=100000000033957-2276-0&cHash=ed5fb24https://m.facebook.com/HeritageDehttp://museum.wa.gov.au/store/museum-books/all



Online book


Natasha Awais-Dean: Bejewelled: Men and Jewellery in Tudor and Jacobean England

https://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/209Bejewelledforweb.pdf



Popular culture


Valyrian steel and dragonglass

https://decider.com/2019/04/25/game-of-thrones-valyrian-steel-dragonglass-aryas-weapons/


Women take on the classics for new novels

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...hy-women-are-lining-up-to-reboot-the-classics



Events


Diary Dates


30 April 2019 - better run….

Helmets, Heads & the Woman in Armour: Henry Moore at The Wallace

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/helm...at-the-wallace-collection-tickets-59768146134

2 May The Mysore Rockets The Arms and Armour Society

https://www.thearmsandarmoursociety.org.uk/events/mysore-rockets/


Conferences


10 May 2019 Leeds

The heart of the art of combat - exploring medieval manuscript I.33

https://royalarmouries.org/event/the-heart-of-the-art-of-combat/


Calls for papers


September 2019 Kyoto early bird booking running out

ICOMAM 2019 Conference, Kyoto (Japan) http://icom-kyoto-2019.org/data/ima...8E-Qdx4KsoD_htE1_BHGVouQhJSu4YRKPyN4D4N8ckh3o


Sales, fairs and auctions


1 May 2019 London

The Marine Sale

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/25337/


1 May 2019 Edinburgh

The Sporting Sale

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/25362/


20– 24 May 2019

Hermann Historica

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


23 May 2019 London

Antique Arms and Armour

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/25424/


23 May 2019 London

Modern Sporting Guns

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/25426


Thomas del Mar dates for 2019

25 June & 4 December 2019

http://www.http://artdaily.com/news/112542/Wea...ctions--Ethnographic-Art-Auction#.XK3BpDHsZ9A



Websites and downloads


Musée d’Armes de Liège

http://liegemuseum.be/musee-armes-liege

http://liegemuseum.be/


Arms and armor at the Met

https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/curatorial-departments/arms-and-armor


1066 etc: medieval Sweden, marrying a Valkyrie and the home life of Queens

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/04...tricide-a-game-of-thrones-in-medieval-sweden/

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/04/i-love-you-please-put-away-the-bear-valkyrjur-turned-wife/

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/04/she-wolves-medieval-queens-with-helen-castor/


Finally


This fortnight I tweeted assorted pictures from Yorkshire and the Netherlands

https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe



Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown – 30 April 2019


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