Basiliscoe Mercury 343

The Basiliscoe Mercury343


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


Things begin to return to normal while a few more museums open. However still a number are closed and some areas are faring worse than others. However a few more intriguing stories trickling in, from Romans in Scotland and Persians in Greece to the Met’s C19 articles and a new date for theICOMAM Conference- next May


Arms and armour in the news


Ancient arms, battles & Forts


Hippo axe

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-homo-erectus-ax-east-africa.html


The Persian wars

https://neoskosmos.com/en/169731/thermopylae-salamis-2020-2500-years-of-history/

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2020/07/salamis-the-city-of-teucer/134204


And possibly connected- Aeschylus’ The Persians online

https://www.ekathimerini.com/254824...to-be-live-streamed-from-epidaurus-on-july-25


When Severus crossed the Wall…

https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/attempt-conquer-scotland-order-genocide-2923834


Beasts of assorted varieties…


Horses in art through the ages

http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/horse-power/


Grave stories


Scanning a Siberian mummy

https://siberiantimes.com/science/c...-the-first-time-we-can-see-his-lifelike-face/


Through the arrow-slit . . .


Trelleborg ring fort

https://www.medievalists.net/2020/07/harald-bluetooth-trelleborg/



Remembering excavating Bury’s castle

https://www.burytimes.co.uk/news/18...le-revealed-extraordinary-archaeological-dig/


Through the gunloop…


Clacton’s Martello tower to be restored

https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/18584436.heritage-group-spend-120k-restore-martello-tower/


Tour of Drake’s Island, Plymouth

https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/ne...ome-drakes-island-exploring-plymouths-4325307


Back to the front


Uccello painting of battlefield to be sold

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...iece-nazi-looters-a-double-and-a-happy-ending


Update on Culloden

https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/public-plead-to-protect-culloden


Living in the past


Swedish knights riding to Gotland’s C19 rescue

https://www.medievalists.net/2020/07/covidriddarna-swedish-knights/


Café Basiliscoe


Iron Age Scottish butter

https://www.archaeology.org/news/8870-200721-iron-age-butter


With Roman bread

https://blog.britishmuseum.org/making-2000-year-old-roman-bread/


Miscellany


Bar-shot fromTrafalgar gets new lease of life

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/18606325.trafalgar-weapon-now-sundial-whitby-museum/


Military uniforms in the fashion

https://museumcrush.org/bodmin-keep-on-how-military-uniform-has-influenced-fashion/


Princesses and Amazons


Joan of Arc

https://www.medievalists.net/2020/07/avenging-angel/

World Heritage


Yemen’s heritage being looted

https://artdaily.com/news/126778/Bombed-and-looted--Yemen-battles-to-save-its-heritage#.Xx04NZuSmUk


Choctaw wooden bow found in Mississippi creek bed

https://www.archaeology.org/news/8879-200724-mississippi-choctaw-bow


Nautical news


Update on the Gjellestad ship excavations

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/07/norways-gjellestad-burial-mound.html

http://www.sfltimes.com/news/who-wa...ship-researchers-seek-clues-in-new-excavation


Update from the Queen Anne’s Revenge

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/blackbeard-shipwreck-0013994


Interesting feature on HMS Challenger

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200719-hms-challenger-the-voyage-that-birthed-oceanography



Museum news and exhibitions


News


Australia’s Powerhouse saved

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/new...museum-saved-from-closure-but-debate-rages-on


But some US museums may never reopen

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/new...seums-may-shut-down-forever-a-survey-confirms


UKmuseums & properties re-opening

https://www.museumsassociation.org/...ance-published-for-scottish-and-welsh-museums

https://www.rct.uk/welcome-back

https://www.medievalists.net/2020/07/welsh-heritage-sites-begin-reopening/


But manyhave staff facing redundancy

https://www.museumsassociation.org/...m-and-heritage-sector-faces-more-redundancies




UK special funding packages

https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/ace-awards-33m-to-npos-from-emergency-fund

https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/scotlands-independent-museums-get-4m-boost


New museums & re-openings


New Army Museum of the USA delays opening

https://armyhistory.org/opening-day/

https://www.thenmusa.org/


New buildings at Colonial Williamsburg

https://artdaily.com/news/126906/A-new-day-dawns-at-the-Art-Museums-of-Colonial-Williamsburg-with-an-expanded-building--new-exhibitions-and-more#.XyJ66puSmUk


Spanish Armada centre, Ireland

https://www.spanisharmadaireland.co...pdNdwqIxWqZ_twug6QTcVaQg1vNUFXI-OS1xwiLTqWq-Y


Current positions for museum and sites round Europe & the world

http://livrustkammaren.se/en

https://www.awm.gov.au/visit

https://veste.kunstsammlungen-coburg.de/en/visit/eintrittspreise/

https://www.waffenmuseumsuhl.de/

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/summer

https://en.natmus.dk/

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

https://mnk.pl/events/all

https://wawel.krakow.pl/en/what-to-see


Museum developments


Visit Scottish castles after dark

https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/after-dark-at-brodie-castle


Museum musings


Confederate statues in DC get their marching orders

https://artdaily.com/news/126711/House-votes-to-remove-Confederate-statues-From-U-S--Capitol#.XxlC0JuSmUk


Penn Museum puts skulls into storage

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/07/norways-gjellestad-burial-mound.html



Conservation corner


What was happening in locked down museums?

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/pests-run-amok-as-museums-struggle-with-lockdown


Objects


New Zealand repatriate cloak and helmet from Captain Cook to Hawaii

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cloak-helmet-hawaii-captain-cook-180975298/


RAF Museum put objects up for adoption

https://museumcrush.org/from-a-logbook-to-a-lancaster-raf-museum-objects-are-up-for-adoption/


Exhibitions


SE Asian objects in Edinburgh

https://artdaily.com/news/126771/Il...f-art-go-on-display-in-Edinburgh#.Xxv3fpuSmUk



Books


Now I know that Arthur Credland has just had a book on Crossbows published as I have actually seen a copy. However I cannot trace it on the internet, but it is published by the Society of Archer Antiquaries.

http://societyofarcher-antiquaries.org/index.htm


Chinese Silk on Russian Military Flags in Swedish Collection

https://inzj.zjol.com.cn/News/20200...jc5NsAN4FSqnoFSedmNyZ-ybMBEe4yWt3ZAb4nmMDV2b4


Marc Romanych, Martin Rupp: World War II German Super-Heavy Siege Guns

https://ospreypublishing.com/store/...th/world-war-ii-german-super-heavy-siege-guns


Books from the UK Royal Collections

https://www.royalcollectionshop.co.uk/books-p2.html


Online books


ElizabethBurger: Reinvestigating the Wreck of the Sixteenth Century Portuguese Galleon São João: A Historical Archaeological Perspective

https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/27849


Carlos Montalvão, O Xaveco Marroquino (Séc. XVIII). A Construção do modelo / Le Chébec Marocain XVIIIe siècle. La construction du modèle, Lisboa, Comissão Portuguesa de História Militar, 2008.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ui...mbKeHx9aO6SdTiWATnMROUhAQKTXWyCTw8ITPyfBGgIrI



Popular culture


Masks- the newest thing

https://artdaily.com/news/126539/The-new-must-have-museum-souvenir--Face-masks#.XxK_55uSmUk

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/gal...ce-mask-becomes-the-latest-designer-accessory


Minecraft in the Middle Ages

https://www.medievalists.net/2020/07/explore-medieval-minecraft/


You can still do medieval archery in lockdown…

https://www.medievalists.net/2020/07/medieval-archery-simulator/


Ai Weiwei: History of Bombs – installation at the Imperial War Museum,

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...i-history-of-bombs-review-imperial-war-museum


Events


Diary Dates


ICOMAM conference – new dates

TOLEDO, SPAIN

17 – 21 May 2021

https://ejercito.defensa.gob.es/eventos/icomam_toledo_2021/



Websites and downloads


In case you have missed them, you can read the Met’s superb C19 series of articles here:

https://us19.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=a84329d90ebce21b14f4a0c23&id=1891b1f9ee


Armed Forces Museum, Netherlands (and how to book a visit)

https://www.nmm.nl/


On a lighter note- settle down to The Ghost Knight

https://www.medievalists.net/2020/07/ghost-knight/


Finally


This fortnight I have following the statues debates, back and forth…

https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe


Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown –31 July 2020


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Hey, Thanks again, Spring!!! Got stuck watching the baker make the bread from Pompeii.....was fun!!!! Not too sure how it was going to taste though!!!!

Haven't gotten to more yet! BTW, you might want to fix that link at the end so the WHOLE THING is a HYPERLINK!!!