Basiliscoe Mercury 384

The Basiliscoe Mercury384


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


A number of stories on prehistoric weapons this week, a whole shelfful of new books on a variety of subjects, museums in Ukraine and their collections, and David Blackmore publishes a novel!



Arms and armour in the news


Ancient arms


Flint arrowhead found on Cork beach https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-40871414.html


Reconstructing a Bronze Age bow

https://phys.org/news/2022-05-archaeologists-reconstruct-ancient-aryan.html


Bronze Age spear found near Cirencester https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/...iscovered-during-wetlands-construction/143648


Battles, towers and forts


Caithness broch damaged by stone removal https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-a...roch-as-stones-removed-to-build-cairn-3686905


Alderney’s Roman fort investigated again

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-guernsey-61464804


Hunting round the world and through the ages


Hunting pits found in the Stonehenge landscape https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-61408488


Grave stories


Viking DNA shows they were not all Scandinavianhttps://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2020/september/viking-dna.html


Update on the news of the British soldiers buried near Utrecht in the 1790s https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61391848


This week’s grave story blog includes a French artillery officer

https://grave-stories.com/


Through the arrow-slit . . .


Investigating Shrewsbury motte https://www.shropshirelive.com/news...ts-to-explore-the-motte-at-shrewsbury-castle/


Excavating a crusader castle

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-706774


Hay castle to open to public after massive conservation project https://www.theartnewspaper.com/202...in-worlds-first-book-town-saved-from-collapse


Cannons to the left, cannon to the right


17th century cannon uncovered in the Netherlands https://www.raap.nl/2022/05/23/kanon-uit-de-17e-eeuw-duikt-op-in-de-valtherschans/


Cannon displayed at Spanish Fort Alabama https://www.fox10tv.com/2022/05/19/mystery-cannon-be-centerpiece-spanish-ft-city-hall/


Short articles about Falkirk, Carron and the carronade https://www.falkirkherald.co.uk/her...shing-success-of-the-carronade-cannon-3709399

https://www.falkirkherald.co.uk/her...ial-revolution-3700177?itm_source=parsely-api


Restoring a gunnadefrom Cataraqui wrecked in Bass Strait in 1846 https://www.abc.net.au/radio/hobart...aqui-carronade-public-for-first-time/13903276


Short piece on railway guns- scroll down a bit https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Thursday-Tidings.html?soid=1102959880889&aid=X7N2OQ_ACes


Miscellany


Derawar Fort

https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/957469-the-lost-grandeur


Fort Motte battlefield explored

https://www.postandcourier.com/news...cle_58cde90c-d2e1-11ec-beab-8f115f0b96db.html




Café Basiliscoe


Olive oil of the mummies

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/olive-oil-ancient-egypt/


Or ancient oil

https://www.thehindu.com/news/citie...-oil-press-found-in-field/article65401415.ece


With oysters

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/may...ainably-through-history-study-finds-1.6451431


Princesses and Amazons


Museum of Scotland acquire Mary’s silver casket https://museumcrush.org/the-silver-casket-that-led-to-the-downfall-of-mary-queen-of-scots/


Duelling ladies

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/female-duel-0016802


Nautical news


Bronze guns recovered in Spanish waters go for conservation https://www.farodevigo.es/gran-vigo...QafBycZRWbTCQlWvwpd0H3S_s6jNhoSmV33DZZoaYJWyY


Pondering the fate of the Flor de la Marhttps://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/05/flor-de-la-mar-the-lost-treasure-ship/143632


Searching for the Gaspeehttps://eu.providencejournal.com/st...teers-shipwreck-hms-gaspee-search/9744427002/

https://phys.org/news/2022-05-scientists-renew-efforts-ship-torched.html


Update on the state of the Endeavourhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2...atened-global-heating-technology-mensun-bound


Investigating WW2 cargo ship off Greece https://greekherald.com.au/culture/...s-forgotten-flotilla-off-coast-western-crete/


Museum news and exhibitions


News


ICOM defines museums

https://www.museumsassociation.org/...05/icom-museum-definition-plan-moves-forward/


Museum curators already out gathering stuff in Ukraine https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...it-russian-artefacts-with-pride-and-a-warning


To make up for what is being looted https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/may/27/ukraine-russia-looting-museums


Exeter returning regalia to Native Canadians

https://museumcrush.org/native-american-crowfoot-regalia-returns-from-exeter-to-its-homelands/


Conservation corner


Cleaning Carpaccio’s Young Knight

https://artdaily.com/news/146457/Mu...n-a-Landscape-restoration-and-technical-study


Restoring Ireland’s lost archives https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-office-civil-war-bombardment-archives-reborn


Objects


Never pick up litter in Yorkshire....

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...es-bumpy-ride-in-yorkshire-litter-pickers-car


Grant’s revolvers sold for record price https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/ulysses-grant-revolvers-sold-5m-auction


Unusual Navy gunpowder measure, dated 1850

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Thursday-Tidings.html?soid=1102959880889&aid=knwgI6xn6bE



Exhibitions


Sutton Hoo finds go back to Sutton Hoo

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-61480771


Andparts of the Staffordshire hoard going, toohttps://museumcrush.org/anglo-saxon-treasures-from-the-staffordshire-hoard-head-to-sutton-hoo/


100 years war in Chateaudun

http://www.chateau-chateaudun.fr/Actualites/Exposition-Gagner-la-guerre-de-Cent-Ans


Italian armours at the Frist art gallery https://www.broadwayworld.com/nashville/article/Frist-Art-Museum-Presents-KNIGHTS-IN-ARMOR-20220518



Books


Chris Fern & Jenni Butterworth: Warrior Treasure, The Staffordshire Hoard in Anglo-Saxon Englandhttps://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/id/55405/


Stuart Ellis-Gorman: The Medieval Crossbow; A Weapon Fit to Kill a Kinghttps://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Medieval-Crossbow-Hardback/p/21280


Emmanuel de Crouy-Chanel: Le canon: MoyenÂge - Renaissance

https://www.amazon.fr/canon-Moyen-âge-Renaissance/dp/2869067496


Paul Cockerham: The Incised Effigial Slabs of the Pays De La Loirehttps://mcusercontent.com/5557bc147...140035a5f138/Pays_de_la_Loire_slabs_flier.pdf



Popular culture


Those who enjoyed David Blackmore’s books might be interested to know he has now ventured into historical fiction:

To The Dourohttps://djblackmore.wordpress.com/2...wGlyReAHf0Wo8zne9FUKPazYQ2D_tvN9Q5RuN4x-xHPIE


Events


Conferences


20-28 August 2022 Prague

ICOM-ICOMAM 2022 Annual meeting

https://icomam.mini.icom.museum/icom-icomam-meeting-2022/




17-18 October 2022 London

Armourers & Brasiers/Arms and Armour Society 700th anniversary conference, Armourers Hall, London

https://zfrmz.eu/NTJUW56JEuJHLD5u27uL


Websites and downloads


Canada’s 48th Highland regiment’s museum

https://museum.48thhighlanders.ca/


Denmark’s medieval wall-paintings

http://www.kalkmalerier.dk/

http://www.panoramas.dk/kalkmalerier/


Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown –28 May 2022


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