Basiliscoe Mercury 366

The very last item, a photo, was inserted on my behalf.



The Basiliscoe Mercury366


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


Now a Bazzy for every day of a Leap Year, too.

Swords in Ottawa and Norfolk, Castles in Scotland and Sweden and searches for wrecks. Tudor summer in Leeds and Sir Walter Scott in Edinburgh. Finally a request for help with Spanish artillery.


Arms and armour in the news


Ancient arms


Dagger with part of hilt found in Indian excavations https://www.thehindu.com/news/natio...ith-wooden-handle-madurai/article35732053.ece


Rethinking Alderney’s Roman fort

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-58015191


Roman weapon cache found on Menorca https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/...d-at-son-catlar-prehistoric-settlement/139792


Part of Hadrian’s Wall found under Newcastle street https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ians-wall-discovered-in-newcastle-city-centre


Anglo-Saxon sword mount from Norfolk

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-57999456


More on the finds from Norway’s retreating glaciers https://phys.org/news/2021-08-ice-high-altitude-reveal-viking.html


Grave stories


Tough life in the fortress of Louisbourghttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/bones-young-girl-fortress-louisbourg-1.6132578


Through the arrow-slit . . .


Studying Margat Castle

http://www.jordantimes.com/news/reg...archaeological-mission-explores-margat-castle


Searching for a lost Swedish castle https://sputniknews.com/europe/2021...mythical-castle-discovered-on-swedish-island/

Excavations at Richmond Castle

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/her...nny-from-william-the-conquerors-reign-3331615


Small castle found in Shropshire

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-58069335


Fascinating long illustrated article on Castle Tioramhttps://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/acharacle/castletioram/index.html


Forts and cannon


Update on the damage to Hurst Castle https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/hurst-castle-collapse-climate-change-b1895717.html


Feature on Darlington’s Crimean cannon https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/19498028.darlingtons-russian-cannon-south-park-crimean-war/


Weapons


Bronze sword to go on display in Enniskillen https://www.impartialreporter.com/n...-castle-museums-becomes-permanent-home-sword/


Ottawa couple find old sword

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/ottaw...y-sword-during-backyard-renovations-1.5542314https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/sword-found-ottawa-backyard-mystery-1.6121923


Magnet fishing in Toronto

https://www.blogto.com/city/2021/08/magnet-fishers-find-gun-stash-historic-toronto-harbour/


Back to the front


Investigating the fall of the Aztecs

https://www.discovermagazine.com/pl...-empire-what-really-happened-in-the-battle-of


New thoughts on Cumberland’s campaign https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/nostalgia/3381892/butcher-cumberland-chapel/



Investigating the Battle of Stonnington

https://news.yahoo.com/historical-s...-xtI0weo0Skpqa_xPauoyXuXuaEsUmRJTrlwY5aoOTq3y


Searching for the Battlefield of Medina

https://sanantonioreport.org/battle-of-medina-search-continues/


Living in the past


Recreating 18th century living

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2021/jul/26/inside-dennis-severs-house-in-pictures


Café Basiliscoe


Roman snack bar https://www.theguardian.com/science...-food-joint-unearthed-in-2019-opens-to-public


Let’s hope the kitchen renovations work better than Thomas Cromwell’s…https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-57990681


And a slice of wedding cake…

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...-wedding-cake-sells-auction-1850-royal-family


Princesses and Amazons


Were the Valkyries real? https://sputniknews.com/europe/2021...-artefact-production-in-medieval-scandinavia/


Women in the Civil War

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/english-civil-war-women


Into the 20th century


Friendly fire in WW2

https://www.nation.lk/online/was-ba...ouglas-bader-almost-killed-by-raf-106675.html


Nazi cache found hidden in German house https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/08/hidden-nazi-cache-revealed-in-hagen/139846



Nautical news


Searching the Solent for 16th century galleys https://maryrose.org/news/search-for-sunken-galley/


Revisiting the discovery of a royal French cannonhttps://www.varmatin.com/histoire/r...FSPgEOdPlw6iNRMVsZXhckWpfXPvLLkdz99KkAwLpB5fs


Has the Dutch fluit been identified? https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2021/...ltic-sea-may-have-been-the-17th-century-swan/


Searching for slave ships round the world https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/searching-for-slave-ship-wrecks-scn/index.html


Scanning weapons from the Hazardous- wonderful results! https://www.nauticalarchaeologysociety.org/ct-scan-for-free



Museum news and exhibitions


News


Greek sites and museums close because of wild fires https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/heatwave-forces-acropolis-in-athens-to-close-to-visitors


New museums


Beirut National Museum re-opens https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/beirut-national-museum-slowly-re-opens


Museum musings


Interesting article on the UK’s military museums

https://rusi.org/explore-our-resear...ll-remember-them-wont-we-uks-military-museums


Conservation corner


Conserving FalklandPalace’s tapestries https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/stitching-the-past-the-tale-of-the-falkland-tapestries



Exhibitions


Sir Walter Scott in Edinburgh

https://artdaily.com/news/138144/Ne...tt--opens-at-the-National-Museum-of-Scotland-



Books


New book explores Indigenous Australian collections in museums across the UK for first time

https://artdaily.com/news/138077/Ne...tions-in-museums-across-the-UK-for-first-time


Book on van Dyck portraits

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/review/van-dyck-s-grand-opera


Book list for summer

https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/


Popular Culture


Orfordness- photo essay https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...ess-afterness-artangel-national-trust-suffolk


New uses for new mail

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02116-2


More on Sir Gawain

https://www.medievalists.net/2021/08/the-green-knight-and-sir-gawain/


Events


Tudor summer in Leeds https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co...ess-heralded-at-leeds-royal-armouries-3332264


Days out at Crownhill Fort

https://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/cr...OK2TwhRyrWcyqsve31c1KG5YCAPlr3lSeQgTtLogfJieQ


Summer in Scottish castles

https://www.medievalists.net/2021/07/castlefest-launched-in-scotland/



Summer at the Medieval Centre

https://middelaldercentret.dk/


ICOMAM conference –Toledo, Spain

New dates - delayed until November

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


Sales, fairs and auctions


27 Aug Los Angeles

The Early West

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/27262/



Websites and downloads


Celebrating GrinlingGibbons https://www.theartnewspaper.com/preview/glorious-grinling-gibbons


Latest from Sweden’s military museums

https://www.sfhm.se/english/


1066 etc: Sir Orfeo, Wallingford Castle, & 1066 (no, really)

https://www.medievalists.net/2021/08/medieval-storytime-sir-orfeo/https://www.medievalists.net/2021/08/preservation-work-to-be-carried-out-at-wallingford-castle/

https://www.medievalists.net/2021/08/saga-swegen-godwinson/


John Morris would like some help with identifying Spanish cannon; contact springfield.arsenal@verizon.net for details.



Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown –14 August 2021