Basiliscoe Mercury 324

The Basiliscoe Mercury324


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


Well, autumn is well and truly with us- less seasons of mellow fruit, more torrential rain storms. However we have things to read through the dark evenings and mornings. Swords from Spain and Estonia; walruses no longer in Iceland, and new work on William Wallace. Royal Armouries gets a Rubens and we can all start saving our pennies for the Raphael onslaught. And a major exhibition at the Met, the Last Knight.


Arms and armour in the news


Ancient arms, forts and walruses


Bronze Age sword found in megalith on Mallorca

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/talayot-sword-0012595


Bronze helmets found in Macedonian graves

https://greece.greekreporter.com/20...d-at-ancient-cemetery-of-macedonian-warriors/


Paintedshield 1700 years old from Halle

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/shield-fragment-from-ad300-is-the-oldest-german-panel-painting


Fragments of Viking era swords found in Estonia

https://news.err.ee/986495/fragments-of-100-viking-swords-unearthed-in-north-estonia


Once it was kings in carparks, now it’s forts under bus stations- Exeter

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/sep/26/roman-fort-discovered-under-exeter-bus-station


Vikings killed all the walruses in Iceland

https://www.medievalists.net/2019/0...inction-of-its-walrus-population-study-finds/


On the Frontlines


British stayed at home for the First Crusade

https://www.medievalists.net/2019/0...cipated-in-the-first-crusade-historian-finds/


Crusaders and their impact on Petra

https://menafn.com/1099047366/Italian-scholar-studies-impact-of-crusaders-on-Petra-monastery


New work on the Battle of Stirling Bridge

https://www.medievalists.net/2019/09/new-light-on-the-battle-of-stirling-bridge/


Through the arrow-slit . . .


Lost Gloucester castle revealed in documents

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-en...l-sheds-light-on-demolished-gloucester-castle


Update from the Sheffield Castle dig

https://www.thestar.co.uk/retro/rem...ve-around-1000-years-constant-activity-637099


Wall tower in Bulgaria identified

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/20...pesitsa-fortress-in-bulgarias-veliko-tarnovo/


Cannons to the left, cannon to the right


Legends of the cannons of the Adirondack

https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2019/09/myths-about-adirondack-military-roads.html


Cannon found in Allahabad- interesting story but terrible photo!

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...l-history-department/articleshow/71188860.cms


Hurricane reveals round shot on the southern beach

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...r-cannonballs-south-carolina-beach-180973095/


Café Basiliscoe


Game pie

https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/mairi-sawyers-game-pie


But best to avoid the henbane

https://arstechnica.com/science/201...ave-used-henbane-to-induce-trance-like-state/


Miscellany


Royal Armouries get portrait of Charles V by Rubens

https://www.theguardian.com/culture...t-artworks-go-to-british-museums-in-tax-deals


Illustrated feature on the Anglo-Khasi War (1829-1833) the conflict between the East India Company and the Khasi Tribal states https://thenortheasttoday.com/the-khasis-of-meghalaya/


Princesses and Amazons


Feature on women warriors

https://www.science20.com/content/happy_equinox_lets_celebrate_ancient_female_warriors


More on Elizabeth’s dress- funnily enough I saw it at Bacton earlier in the year

https://www.theguardian.com/educati...ress-to-go-on-display-at-hampton-court-palace


Nautical news


The London nearly blows up a second time…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-49863564


Feature on the Chesil Cannon site and its investigation

https://divernet.com/2019/09/19/local-divers-tackle-chesil-mystery-wrecks/


Three shipwrecks in downtown Gothenburg

https://www.thelocal.se/20190926/three-17th-century-shipwrecks-found-in-central-gothenburg


Verdict on the HMS Victory case

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-49854546


Update on the Endeavour

https://www.livescience.com/captain-cook-endeavour-shipwreck-possibly-discovered.html


HMS Montagu protected

https://www.theguardian.com/science...rld-war-battleship-granted-special-protection


Museum news and exhibitions


News


Wallace Collection prepares to begin loaning objects

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/where-there-s-a-wallace-collection-will-there-s-a-way


New Museums


Update on Berlin’s Museum of the Twentieth Century- spoiler alert- more expense than expected…

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/new...rzog-and-de-meuron-museum-of-the-20th-century


Royal Apartments at Dresden restored for visitors

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/king-of-bling-s-home-recreated-in-dresden


Museum developments


New technology and the Rothschild collections

https://www.countrylife.co.uk/luxur...childs-improved-technology-open-public-203889


National trust exploring ways of making visits friendlier for dementia sufferers

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/working-together-for-a-dementia-friendly-future


Conservation corner


Problems of conserving wall paintings in a damp climate

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...storations-england-church-wall-paintings-risk


Exhibitions


Leonardo- so 2019- get ready for Raphael 2020

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/national-gallery-raphael

http://artdaily.com/news/117156/Major-new-Raphael-exhibition-announced#.XZBu7jHsZ9A


Herbert read- Art Critic and Green Howard in Leeds

https://museumcrush.org/soldier-poet-anarchist-knight-who-was-herbert-read/


Durer drawings in Vienna

https://www.albertina.at/en/exhibitions/albrecht-duerer/


Medieval Africa in Toronto

https://www.medievalists.net/2019/09/medieval-africa-aga-khan-museum/


Last Knight in the Met

https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2019/last-knight-art-armor-ambition-maximilian


Books


The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I

https://store.metmuseum.org/the-las...m=062119&mma_content=the-last-knight-80049459


Angus Konstam: Hunt the Bismarck; The pursuit of Germany's most famous battleship

https://ospreypublishing.com/store/...-books/available-this-month/hunt-the-bismarck


Online Book


I, Gdańsk, (editor) : The Shipwreck General Carleton, 1785 / Wrak statku General Carleton 1785

https://www.academia.edu/2323059/Th...wWia8inl9qx_qSUAakZUje_uDc5I6UgMo4sGYDqt_MJ_I


Popular Culture


A visit to the Met’s Armoury (the Opera rather than the Museum!)

https://untappedcities.com/2019/09/18/inside-the-met-operas-armory-full-of-weapons-for-the-stage/


Korda, Churchill and winning the propaganda war

http://marketresearchwriteup.com/20...w-a-tight-trousered-nelson-smashed-the-nazis/


Events


Diary Dates


Museum events

https://royalarmouries.org/

http://www.musee-marine.fr/index.php?lg=fr&nav=1&flash=1

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

https://veste.kunstsammlungen-coburg.de/en/home/

https://www.philamuseum.org/visit


Conferences


16-17 November 2019 Portsmouth

The Nautical Archaeology Society and the Ordnance Society

Wooden Walls and Stone Bastions

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


23 November 2-19 Raglan

Symposium: Raglan Castle

https://www.sal.org.uk/events/2019/...ail&utm_term=0_c0cb6b55f1-3da2bfbb2d-83439177


Sales Fairs and auctions


Brochure for Hermann Historica

https://www.hermann-historica.de/upload/BestOf/80/


Websites and Downloads


Update on Finding the Vasa cannon

https://www.vasamuseet.se/en/collections/finding-the-vasa-cannon


Latvian War Museum

http://www.karamuzejs.lv/lkm/home.aspx?sc_lang=en


VYTAUTAS the Great War Museum, Lithuania

https://web.archive.org/web/2011071...ejai.lt/Prev_vers/Kaunas/karo_muziejus.en.htm


The Estonian War Museum

https://esm.ee/


Tallin City Wall Towers

https://linnamuuseum.ee/en/cat-linn...-open-every-day-and-you-only-need-one-ticket/


1066 etc One Battle, one King

https://www.medievalists.net/2019/0...logical-innovation-and-military-significance/

https://www.medievalists.net/2019/09/how-richard-the-lionheart-got-his-name-the-epic-version/


Finally


This fortnight I tweeted pictures of our Great Baltic Tour

https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe


Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown – 2019


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