Basiliscoe Mercury 319

The Basiliscoe Mercury319


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


Arms and armour in the news


Swords from lakes? So 2018; this week, gun barrels from Asianlakes and wells… Otherwise one-legged French generals in Russia, two Krupps guns, 3 submarines, a whole bunch of swords in Scottish collections and a film about a Confederate sabre.


Ancient arms


Searching for the evolution of warfare in prehistory

https://phys.org/news/2019-07-imitation-war-evolutionary-theory.html


Feature on the Staffordshire Hoard, ten years on

https://www.expressandstar.com/news...rs-on-since-the-discovery-in-a-farmers-field/


What the new Lewis chessman fetched

http://artdaily.com/news/114893/New...en-Workshop-makes--pound-735-000#.XRxesjHsZ9A


Beasts of assorted varieties…


Ice age deer tooth necklace

https://aeon.co/ideas/what-a-deer-tooth-necklace-says-about-our-ice-age-ancestors


Racehorse Eclipse goes to Milton Keynes

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...ton-of-superstar-racehorse-eclipse-mk-gallery


Grave stories


CSI Old Stone Age

https://popular-archaeology.com/art...dence-of-violence-behind-human-skull-remains/


Update on two new boat burials in Sweden

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/07/two-viking-age-ship-burials-discovered-in-sweden/

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-man-...a-rare-intact-boat-burial-unearthed-in-sweden


Tomb of Hungarian king may have been found

https://hungarytoday.hu/tomb-orseolo-hungarian-king-archaeologists/


Aheadline to cherish: “Remains of Napoleon's One-Legged General Found under Russian Dance Floor”

https://www.livescience.com/65920-napoleon-general-found-in-russia.html


Through the arrow-slit . . .


Excavating Shrewsbury Castle

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news...19/07/05/castle-history-set-to-be-discovered/


Restoring Delhi’sRed Fort

https://www.thehindu.com/news/citie...hal-era-parts-of-red-fort/article28129915.ece


Cannons to the left, cannon to the right


Early fireworks

https://www.livescience.com/65870-fireworks-immortality-search.html


Medieval guns and gunpowder

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/07/invention-guns-gunpowder/


Interesting piece on Henry Maudslay who began his career in Woolwich Arsenal

https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/maudslays-micrometer/3010650.article


Rhode Island’s artillery company, its traditions and collections

http://whatsupnewp.com/2019/06/artillery-company-of-newport-a-4th-of-july-tradition/


Fascinating story of Krupps WWI howitzer in Canada which is off to a new home

https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2019/07/04/cottage-cannon-historic-wwi-howitzer-finds-a-new-home/


And a WWI Krupps in Eltham, NZ, goes for conservation

https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-da...in-eltham-to-be-given-longawaited-restoration


Asian round-up


Fascinating piece on recovery of Japanese gun-barrel from a riverbed

https://soranews24.com/2019/07/04/j...easure-in-local-reservoir-twitter-speculates/


…and gun barrels found in a well in Indianear Kanpur

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...ensils-found-in-well/articleshow/70099073.cms


Ancient tower tomb looted by Ottomans- the evidence

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/20...eath-bulgarias-largest-thracian-burial-mound/


Back to the front


Late medieval armour

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/07/the-armour-of-the-common-soldier-in-the-late-middle-ages/


Over-rated battles…A historian decides…

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/battle-bannockburn-listed-among-most-18004690


Café Basiliscoe


Roman olive oil

https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-...sta-del-sol-as-huge-archaeology-park-planned/


Who did the cooking in the Viking long house?

http://sciencenordic.com/viking-men-were-buried-cooking-gear


Miscellany


What they found in Edinburgh

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...haeologists-historic-bronze-age-a8981161.html


Confederate soldiers diaries and the slaves of Gettysburg

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/hist...als-role-enslaved-labor-gettysburg-180972538/


Princesses and Amazons


Royal women and power

https://aeon.co/ideas/what-big-history-says-about-how-royal-women-exercise-power


Searching for Lady Jane Grey’s home

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-news/archaeologists-uncover-original-home-lady-3017878


Women in the Revolutionary army

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...mpson-who-fought-revolutionary-war-180972547/


Into the 20th century


Investigating prisoner-of-war camp in Yorkshire

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...isoner-camp-unearthed-in-yorkshire-lodge-moor


WW2 flying boat found in Lough Fermanagh

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-48857521


Search for missing WWII planes off Broome, sunk in Australia's second-worst mainland attack

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-02/new-search-for-missing-wwii-planes-off-broome/11268258


Hughenden’s secret WW2

https://museumcrush.org/hughenden-reveals-its-role-as-top-secret-wwii-map-making-centre/


Vesuvius not the only explosive thing in Pompeii’s past…

https://www.independent.ie/world-ne...hidden-bombs-left-over-from-war-38291042.html


Nautical news


Recruiting for the medieval navy

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/07/join-the-navy-the-medieval-version/


Feature on the Atocha

https://keywest.floridaweekly.com/articles/the-nuestra-senora-de-atocha-2/


WWII Submarine S-28gravesite officially identified off Oahu

https://www.hydro-international.com...s-28-gravesite-officially-identified-off-oahu


But two Dutch submarines are missing…

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/two-shipwrecks-vanished-near-malaysia



Museum news and exhibitions


News


Difficulties of international exhibition in the present political climate

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/v-and-a-to-mount-major-iran-exhibition-in-face-of-us-sanctions


Visiting the Arms and Armor Department at the Met…

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/22/marc-maron-chooses-his-weapon


New museums


New gallery in Brussels

http://www.klm-mra.be/D7t/en/conten...ew-permanent-exhibition-royal-military-museum


New addition to Museum Island, Berlin

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...ield-james-simon-gallery-berlin-museum-island


New Roman museum planned in York

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/bus...on-for-roman-museum-planned-in-york-1-9853551


New museum developments in Budapest

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/hungary-presses-ahead-with-budapest-culture-hub


Museum developments


Learn about a Scottish castle on a new app

https://www.historicenvironment.sco...our-troubles-c-mon-get-app-y-at-caerlaverock/


BM now joins the LGBTQ museum tours movement

https://www.theguardian.com/culture...seum-launches-guided-tours-of-lgbtq-treasures


Conservation corner


16th century Sheldon tapestries conserved

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/a-rich-tapestry-of-english-life-unfurls-in-oxford


(Night-)watching the conservators

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...andt-night-watch-begins-rijksmuseum-amsterdam


Exhibition about conservation at the Kremlin- includes arms

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/moscow-kremlin-museums-say-bravo-to-restorers


Objects


Swords from North East Scotland

https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/en-garde


Exhibitions


Culture under attack at the IWM

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...t-remains-exhibition-war-cultural-destruction


Tea at Compton Verney

http://artdaily.com/news/114969/Exh...ficance-throughout-the-centuries#.XSBhUDHsZ9A


Highland Warriors in Ottawa

https://www.warmuseum.ca/highlandwarriors/


Dutch maritime painting in New Bedford

http://artdaily.com/news/114947/New...ation-in-Dutch-maritime-painting#.XR76ojHsZ9A


Kimonos in Cincinnati

http://artdaily.com/news/114888/Exp...ion-at-the-Cincinnati-Art-Museum#.XRxgiTHsZ9A


Books


Sue Brunning: The Sword in Early Medieval Northern Europe- Experience, Identity, Representation

https://boydellandbrewer.com/the-sword-in-early-medieval-northern-europe-hb.html


Simon Forty: D-Day UK

https://www.english-heritageshop.org.uk/books-media/d-day-uk-


Jonathan Coad: Support for the Fleet (reduced price but still eye-watering)

https://www.english-heritahttps://ospreypublishing.com/scapa-1919


Online book


Schiedam Prize

https://research.historicengland.or...5Idog-Q5tZ9WcfsH2gb7uTXB2ZoyW-Wsj03MKuBLsjiT4



Popular culture


Sword of Trust

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8484012/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1


Kursk: The Last Mission- possibly not the cheeriest of summer films

https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...ating-drama-tackles-russian-submarine-tragedy


Tribute to Game of Thrones in needlework in Belfast

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-...ame-of-thrones-recreated-in-90-metre-tapestry


Events


Diary Dates

1 Aug 2019 Arms and Armour Society meeting

https://www.thearmsandarmoursociety.org.uk/events/


Summer events

https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/whats-on/

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/whats-on/knights-jousts-events/

https://middelaldercentret.dk/?lang=en


Conferences


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


16-17 November 2019 Portsmouth

The Nautical Archaeology Society and the Ordnance Society

Wooden Walls and Stone Bastions

https://ordnancesociety.org.uk/events-2/



Websites and downloads


1066 etc: Byzantine guerrillas, Lindisfarne & Mongol warfare

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/07...ione-bellica-and-byzantine-guerrilla-warfare/

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/07/the-first-battle-of-lindisfarne-where-history-and-legend-meet/

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/07...ar-as-seen-in-china-korea-and-eastern-europe/


Finally


Find me on Twitter for the latest news…

https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe



Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown –16 July 2019


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