Basiliscoe Mercury 320

The Basiliscoe Mercury320


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


Main stories are the wonderful Iron Age helmet from Sussex and the jaw-dropping pictures from the latest Baltic wreck. Summer has finally arrived, so as befits the holiday Bazzy, free books,exoticlocations and films for the rainy days. Enjoy the summer wherever you are.


Arms and armour in the news


Ancient arms


Fascinating piece about a bronze Iron Age helmet from Sussex

https://museumcrush.org/rare-relics-of-an-iron-age-warrior-who-fought-the-romans/


A history of the long bow

https://worldarchery.org/news/172958/history-english-longbow-crooked-stick-and-goose-wing


Tourismand Hadrian’s Wall

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/hadrians-wall-170-years-first-16629891


Beasts of assorted varieties…


Brown bears of Britain

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44699233


Grave stories


Identifying a Slavic woman warrior in a Viking graveyard

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/ne...sible-grave-slavic-warrior-woman-denmark.html


The life and brutal death of Rosemarkie man

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


Through the arrow-slit . . .


Update on investigations at Břeclav Castle

https://www.archaeology.org/news/7825-190715-fortification-duke-of-bohemia


Piece about the Lewis chessman, with a Norwegian slant

https://www.lifeinnorway.net/lewis-chessmen/


Digging at Shrewsbury Castle

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news...haeologists-get-digging-at-shrewsbury-castle/


Exploring the Templars’ Paris

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190724-the-knights-templars-mightiest-stronghold


From the front


Investigating the evidence and artefacts of the 1099 siege of Jerusalem

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/07/archaeological-evidence-of-the-first-crusade-dhttps://www.thefirstnews.com/articl...-battles-remembered-on-609th-anniversary-6778


Latest finds from Waterloo

https://www.theguardian.com/science...ield-hospital-unearths-limbs-and-musket-balls


Through the gunloop…


Piece about Fort Shirley, Dominica

https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-americas/fort-shirley-0012305


Feature on Fort George, Grenada- with cannons…

https://www.ancient-origins.nhttps://www.dawn.com/news/1496621


A chance to buy a Martello tower in Suffolk

https://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/property-news/martello-tower-home-for-sale-awardwinning-cohttps://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/17770610.wirral-39-s-one-o-39-clock-gun-fired-week/


Feature on Jaivana, the giant gun at Jaigarh Fort, Jaipur

https://www.financialexpress.com/li...t-fired-just-once-and-created-a-pond/1644888/


Has a Jacobite cannon been found in Lochaber? No, it’s a garden ornament… https://www.obantimes.co.uk/2019/07/18/lochaber-cannon-may-be-linked-to-bonnie-prince-charlie/


Alamo cannon up and mounted

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Alamo-Historic-Cannon-Restored-513152321.html


Cannon on Fort Christiansvaern, Virgin Islands to be conserved

https://viconsortium.com/news-2/historic-cannons-at-fort-christiansvaern-to-be-preserved-causing-tehttps://www.mid-day.com/articles/mu...publics-morning-visits-to-raj-bhavan/21406192

https://www.asianage.com/metros/mumbai/230719/british-era-cannons-kept-at-raj-bhavan.html


IEDs in the US Civil War

http://www.timesnews.net/Blog/2019/...odern-day-scourge-from-ancient-times-div.html


Woodman Museum’s civil war cannon restored

https://www.fosters.com/news/20190726/woodman-museum-to-unveil-restored-civil-https://www.theartnewspaper.com/preview/ashmolean-museum-show-unearths-pomepii-s-last-supper


A dram of Aberdeen whisky

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/jul/19/aberdeen-could-be-whisky-birthplace-researchers-claim


How to make medieval beer

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/07/art-fermented-comparative-experimentation-in-medieval-brewing/


Medieval cooks

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/07...ales-the-backstage-of-bourgeois-social-drama/


Miscellany


Crossing the Alps in armour

https://www.connexionfrance.com/Mag/French-Life/We-crossed-the-Alps-in-40kg-of-armour


Henry VIII and the Moon landing

https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/nasa-asked-advice-tower-london-armoury-dhttps://www.theartnewspaper.com/feature/lost-art-the-mysterious-allure-of-japan-s-three-sacrhttps://www.inquirer.com/arts/books/joan-of-arc-english-imagination-gail-orgelfinger-20190719.html


Queen Victoria

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ria-transformation-monarchy-explored-new-show


Valkyries for today

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/07https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidn...hips-found-in-the-heart-of-oslo/#766358e57563


Detailed photos of c. 1500 shipwreck in the Baltic Sea released

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...-baltic-sea-renaissance-mystery-a9016221.html

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-myst...as-been-found-at-the-bottom-of-the-baltic-sea

https://www.iflscience.com/editors-...6thcentury-shipwreck-found-in-the-baltic-sea/

https://www.livhttps://www.countrylife.co.uk/luxury/art-and-antiques/favourite-painting-alexzandra-hildred-199529


Update on work on the London

https://museumcrush.org/southends-mary-rose-the-fight-to-save-the-london-shipwreck/


Update on the search for wrecks in the York River

https://www.wral.com/another-revolutionary-war-shipwreck-found-in-york-river/18504239/

https://www.newsweek.com/shipwreck-virginia-revolutionary-war-1449382

https://www.gazettejournal.net/index.php/news/news_article/bottom_of_the_river


Feature on the slave wreck project

https://stjohnsource.com/2019/07/16/nps-hosts-slave-wrecks-project-research-presentation/


Patrol boat USS Eagle PE-56 sunk in 1945 found off the Maine.

https://www.foxnews.com/science/warship-sunk-by-german-sub-wwii-discovered



Museum news and exhibitions


News


Generous funding forWorcester Art Museum

https://www.masslive.com/worcester/2019/07/worcester-art-museum-receives-10-million-gift-marking-largest-single-donation-in-the-institutions-histohttp://www.medievalists.net/2019/07/role-cloisters/


Mystery of the Boston museum heist

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/strange-tales-from-the-gardner-museuhttp://www.arabnews.com/node/1526761/world


New museum for Benin

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/new...an-for-new-museum-to-show-restituted-heritage


Refurbishment and new displays at Richmond Castle

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/her...e-after-its-300-000-museum-makeover-1-9900297

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/26/honouring-conscientious-objectors


Museum developments


British library using wax cylinders for pacific cultures

http://artdaily.com/news/115543/Bri...t-recordings-of-Pacific-cultures#.XTq2bTHsZ9A


Putting the ghosts back into Buckingham Palace

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ria-transformation-monarchy-explored-new-show


Objects


Feature on the weapons of the American Revolution

https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/to-arm-against-an-enemy-weapons-of-the-revolutionary-war/


Peninsular war medal sold

http://artdaily.com/news/115462/A-f...-pound-30-000-at-Dix-Noonan-Webb#.XTgPgTHsZ9A


Exhibitions


Future exhibition on orientalism at the BM

https://www.theguardian.com/culture...seum-explore-islamic-world-impact-western-art


Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace

http://artdaily.com/news/115330/Buc...-up-Victorian-ghosts-in-new-show#.XTF9QzHsZ9A


Van Eyck in Vienna

http://artdaily.com/news/115600/Exh...a-presents-works-by-Jan-van-Eyck#.XT6kWjHsZ9A


Fireworks in Washington

https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2019/european-fete-book.html


Books


Das Schwert – Gestalt und Gedanke / The Sword – Form and Thought –(second edition) https://shop.histofakt.de/product_info.php?products_id=64&MODsid=0v1e8b0h1t0go1nvtdpdral7e7


Kelly DeVries & Niccolò Capponi: Castagnaro 1387-Hawkwood’s Great Victory

https://ospreypublishing.com/store/...ng-books/available-this-month/castagnaro-1387


Freydal - Medieval Games: The Book of Tournaments of Emperor Maximilian I

https://shop.khm.at/en/shop/detail/...2296-0&cHash=5f76831b12ea9d2a869e14826e4a93ca


Chris McNab: Weapons of the US Special Operations Command

https://ospreypublishing.com/store/.../weapons-of-the-us-special-operations-command


Online Books

William Dalton: Will Adams, The First Englishman in Japan

https://archive.org/stream/WillAdamsTheFirstEnglishmanInJapan#page/n25/mode/2up


Stephen Turnbull: Katana: The Samurai Sword

https://archive.org/details/KatanaTheSamuraiSword


William St. John Hope et al: Pageant of the birth, life and death of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, K.G., 1389-1439

https://archive.org/details/pageantofbirthli00hopeuoft/page/1


Léon Robert: Catalogue des collections composant le Musée d'artillerie en 1889

https://archive.org/details/cataloguedescol03robegoog


RAM 255: De bouwgeschiedenis van kasteel Duurstede (gem. Wijk bij Duurstede): nieuw licht op een oud onderzoek.

https://www.cultureelerfgoed.nl/ond.../01/de-bouwgeschiedenis-van-kasteel-duurstede


Reports online from the York Archaeological Trust

https://www.yorkarchaeology.co.uk/fascicules



Popular culture


Make your own Song Armour

https://shanghai.ist/2019/07/16/man-goes-shopping-online-makes-himself-a-set-of-song-dynasty-armor/


Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt771507...pf_rd_t=15061&pf_rd_i=homepage&ref_=hm_otw_t1


Beowolf at the movies

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/07/beowulf-at-the-movies-from-anglo-saxon-poetry-to-modern-cinema/


The Last Duel cinema bound?

https://www.vitalthrills.com/2019/07/22/the-last-duel-ridley-scott-matt-damon-ben-https://variety.com/2019/film/news/ridley-scott-matt-damon-ben-affleck-last-duel-1203275674/


Events


Summer at the Wallace Collection

https://www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/


What’s on in Edinburgh

https://www.nms.ac.uk/exhibitions-events/


Summer at Skokloster

http://skoklostersslott.se/en


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


Diary Dates


1 Aug 2019 Arms and Armour Society meeting

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


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/


Sales Fairs and auctions


26 AugustGleneagles

http://artdaily.com/news/115636/Gav...f-Modern---Vintage-Sporting-Guns#.XT_3RDHsZ9A



Websites and downloads


The Sultan’s gift to Napoleon III

http://collections.musee-armee.fr/le-lys-et-le-croissant-le-don-abd-ul-aziz-au-musee-de-larmee/


Cannons on Rhodes

https://dspace.flinders.edu.au/xmlui/bitstream/handle/2328/1775/293-304_stefahttp://www.medievalists.net/2019/07/warfare-during-crusades/

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/07/archaeology-crusader-battle-hattin/


Finally


This fortnight we tweeted a visit to Dunstanburgh and North Shields

https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe



Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown –31 July 2019


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Oh, I am so glad that you have continued to post these links...................and I now have a new excuse to not do anything profitable all day except read here. Which can be deemed profitable through education, but won't do much for the immediate state of my bank account.....................

 

Thanks, @springfld.arsenal! I always save these and check them out when I have a chance!!! ALWAYS, SO interesting!!!