The Basiliscoe Mercury 218

The Basiliscoe Mercury 218


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


Women warriors, a plethora of shipwrecks, Japanese armour in Canada and call for papers for ICOMAM in Poland.


Arms and armour in the news

Ancient arms


Spear-throwing by early Americans

http://www.livescience.com/49603-paleo-indian-spear-thrower-evidence.html


Cooking for the Stone Age

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-02/uoy-yar020315.php


Bronze Age wrist guard found in Inverness-shire

http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/...Bronze-Age-body-in-Drumnadrochit-03022015.htm


Battles, towers and forts


Assyrians suffered post-traumatic stress disorder 3000 years ago

http://www.aina.org/ata/20150123210400.htm


2000 year old fortification ditch found in Tarragona with finds from time of Hannibal

http://www.thelocal.es/20150128/evidence-of-hannibals-troops-found-in-catalonia


Red numbers found in investigation of the Coliseum

http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/red-seat-numbers-found-on-romes-colosseum-150123.htm



Beasts of assorted varieties…


Dragons!

http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/30/dragons-symbol-evil-european-synagogue-decoration/


Grave stories


Otzi the Iceman had 61 tattoos

http://www.redorbit.com/news/scienc...s-new-tattoos-on-5300-year-old-iceman-012215/


And the face of a 2,500 year old tattooed Siberian princess recreated

http://nation.com.pk/snippets/30-Jan-2015/face-of-2-500-yr-old-princess-recreated


Investigating skull injuries in medieval Denmark

http://phys.org/news/2015-01-analysis-skull-fractures-medieval-denmark.html


Latest cadaver of the famous to get the search treatment is Cervantes

http://artdaily.com/news/76012/War-...hor-Miguel-de-Cervantes--remains#.VM3vP7CzWUk

http://artdaily.com/news/76023/Span...or-Miguel-de-Cervantes--initials#.VM3wRLCzWUk


Miscellany


Making chess pieces in medieval Northampton

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-30214707


Bridge for HarlechCastle

http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/04/new-bridge-installed-harlech-castle/


Musket and cannonballs found in Derry excavations

http://www.u.tv/News/Building-found-pre-dating-Derrys-walls/a207b210-be04-419f-96b9-a3c14913b438


Still searching for the lost colony

http://www.thetimesnews.com/news/re...ful-that-site-is-that-of-lost-colony-1.426522


Cannons to the left, cannon to the right

17th century bronze cannon recovered from building site in Hyderabad

http://www.mid-day.com/articles/17th-century-cannon-found-in-hyderabad/15951191

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...-cannon-at-Musi-bank/articleshow/46060377.cms (picture)


Cannons in Beaufort, South Caroline and their history

http://eatsleepplaybeaufort.com/historic-cannons-in-downtowns-stephen-elliott-park/


Researching the history of a possible cannon from the Alamo

http://www.dentonrc.com/local-news/...-historic-cannon-to-be-dedicated-at-alamo.ece


Cornish fishermen net unusual catch

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk...19th-century/story-25980893-detail/story.html

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk...nets-antique/story-25973056-detail/story.html

http://www.cornishman.co.uk/19th-ce...am-trawler-s/story-25972032-detail/story.html


Asian round-up


Tunnel found under Mysore palace

http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=291855


Article on the British army's looting and destruction of Beijing Palace,1860
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30810596



Living in the past


Researching speed archery - perhaps don’t try this at home…

http://boingboing.net/2015/01/23/an...dium=nextpost&utm_campaign=nextpostthumbnails


Photographs of the SCA

http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/04/game-play-capturing-sca-three-years/


Waterloo watch


Website and gallery for Waterloo200 launched

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...ects-and-campaign-to-trace-waterloo-ancestors


New investigation of the battlefield

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...sion-to-solve-mysteries-of-battle-of-waterloo


Princesses and Amazons


Ben Barbie takes to the arena

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/you-can-now-buy-your-5053090


Joan of Arc

http://www.medievalists.net/2011/05...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer


Ash ThompsonNeverhome

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/30/neverhome-by-laird-hunt-review-brilliant-blaze-novel


Kurdish women fighters

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/30/kurdish-women-died-kobani-isis-syria



Into the 20th century


For St Valentine’s day- WWI love story from Wrest Park

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...t-world-war-love-story-that-lasted-a-lifetime


Spitfires over the Forth remembered

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...orld-war-two-remembered-at-queensferry-museum


Nautical news


New techniques for documenting shipwrecks

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index...n-innovative-method-of-documenting-shipwrecks


Another grave from the Batavia located in Morning Reef, within the Abrolhos Islands

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-...ight-on-batavia-shipwreck-mass-murder/6068008


Medical finds from the Queen Anne’s Revenge

http://www.livescience.com/49563-blackbeard-pirate-ship-yields-medical-supplies.html


And new displays at the museum

http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20150126/ARTICLES/150129787


Update on the search for the Fortuyn

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-10/dutch-shipwreck-fortuyn-search-quest-continues/6082816


Update on HMS Victory

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...is-hampered-by-stormy-relations-10019242.html


100 ship armada which intended to capture Australia for Spain in the 1790s

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ustralia-in-1790s-with-100-vessel-armada.html


Interview with one of the discovers of Franklin’s Erebus

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitch...oing-back-in-time-says-archeologist-1.2942646


Work begins to raise the remains of CSSGeorgia

http://www.wsav.com/story/27969779/before-harbor-gets-deepened-confederate-shipwreck-must-go


And still on the track of the Confederacy’s missing subs

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...f-missing-civil-war-subs-resurfaces/22288817/


Guidebook to confederate gun runner wrecked on Lundy produced

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...s-to-bristol-channel-which-sank-151-years-ago

http://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/lun...rail2-divingthewreck/Diving-the-Wreck-guides/


Fines from naughty banks to fund restoration of D-Day landing vessel

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...ast-second-world-war-landing-craft-from-d-day


And WW2 torpedo boat being restored in Somerset

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-31074285


Gallery of Eric Ravillious’s submarine works

http://images.rmg.co.uk/?service=set&action=show_content_page&language=en&set=144&ref=news


Museum news and exhibitions

New museum curators looking for a new challenge - step forward
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Wanted-a-new-generation-of-Monuments-Men-for-US-army/36935


London may have lost out on the Burrell collection

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Glasgows-Burrell-Collection-could-have-been-Londons/36885


But may have better results with the Smithsonian

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/arti...ion-to-launch-satellite-on-British-soil/36981


Library of Moscow’s Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences damaged by fire

http://artdaily.com/news/76153/A-mi...damaged-in-Russian-library-blaze#.VM3zMLCzWUk


FitzwilliamMuseum finds a pair of Michelangelo bronzes

http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/art...idge-with-help-of-500-year-old-student-sketch

http://www.theguardian.com/artandde...ulptures-fitzwilliam-museum-cambridge-bronzes


New museums


Château de Fontainebleau gets big new funding boost and 15 year renovation plan

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/arti...-rival-Versailles-after-m-funding-boost/36992


Battery in Mistra Bay, Malta to be restored

http://www.timesofmalta.com/article...special-heritage-day-at-mistra-battery.553910


Museum developments


General article about the increasing use of collections going online

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/a...easingly-adding-their-collections-online.html


Video games in museums - good or bad?

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Video-games-in-museums-fine-art-or-just-fun/36905


Conservation corner


New insights into the manufacture of an Indian sword

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-02/s-his021015.php


Work begins on the Painted Hall, Greenwich

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Major-work-on-Greenwichs-Baroque-masterpiece-begins/36897


Objects


Japanese armour in Fort SmithMuseum, NWT

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north...mystery-armour-at-fort-smith-museum-1.2943779


Replica replica Boulton Paul Defiantreplica Boulton Paul Defiantreplica Boulton Paul DefiantBoulton Paul Defiant fighter arrives at Kent Battle of BritainMuseum

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...ly-at-the-kent-battle-of-britain-museum-trust


Exhibitions


Bonaparte and cartoons in London

http://artdaily.com/news/76241/-Bon...on--opens-at-the-British-Museum-#.VNMtorCzWUk


Waterloo in Windsor

http://artdaily.com/news/76133/Batt...or-Castle-marks-200th-anniversary-of-Waterloo


Lancashire treasures in London

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/feb/01/cotton-to-gold-exhibition-london


Winston Churchill at Chartwell

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...-on-display-as-chartwell-marks-churchill-2015


Buttons in Paris

http://artdaily.com/news/76368/Pari...collection-of-over-3-000-buttons#.VNnE2rCzWUk


Renaissance portraits in Brussels

http://artdaily.com/news/76309/Exhi...e-Centre-for-Fine-Arts--Brussels#.VNnFbLCzWUk


Frick collection at The Hague

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/04/frick-collection-masterpieces-mauritshuis-the-hague


Piero di Cosimo retrospective at Washington

http://artdaily.com/news/76165/Once...ional-Gallery-of-Art--Washington#.VM83lrCzWUk


Diponegoro at the National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/arti...-a-lifetime-exhibition-on-national-hero/36997
Books

New handbook to the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s collections

http://artdaily.com/news/76249/Phil...s-new-handbook-of-the-collection#.VNMuL7CzWUk

http://www.philamuseum.org/publications/0-2-9780876332580.html


Richard and Bridget Larn: Henry Trengrouse - The Cornish Inventor of the Rocket Life-Saving Apparatus

http://www.truranbooks.co.uk/aqshop/catalogue.php?id=51


Online Books and reports


Kevin Camidge: St Anthony Designated Historic Wreck Site

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/stanthony-designated-historic-wreck-site-dba/


Kevin Camidge: Rill Cove Designated Historic Wreck Site

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/rill-cove-designated-historic-wreck-site-dba/


Kevin Camidge: Schiedam Prize Designated Historic Wreck Site

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/schiedam-prize-designated-historic-wreck-site-dba/

Popular culture

Yom Kippur war in modern art exhibition

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Israeli-soldiers-war-memories-revived-at-ICA-London/36982


Events


Conferences

Dig it: Museums and archaeology

6 March, British Museum

http://www.museumsassociation.org/f...e=ma&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ma02022015


Calls for Papers


15-20 September 2015, Krakow-Warsaw, Poland

ICOMAM & ICDAD - Ambassadors of dialogue

http://icomam-icdad.pl/en/programme


Sales Fairs and auctions


More cannons to be offered this spring- includes French guns

http://www.springfieldarsenal.net/



Websites and downloads


1066 etc

Battle tactics, maritime warfare, booty, sieges and walled cities

http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01...english-tactical-system-bannockburn-poitiers/

http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/30/war-waterways-maritime-conflict-viking-age-north-sea-region/

http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/31/booty-border-warfare/

http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/02/owain-glyndwr-siege-coity-castle-1404-1405/

http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/07/beyond-walls-walled-cities-medieval-france/


Finally


This fortnight I tweeted a walk round the sites of Leeds Battle

https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe



Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown – 11 February 2015


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WOW, so much info. to read. I love this pic



I saved your thread so when I have time I will curl up with some coffee and ciggies and really get into all the links

 

Thanks again for posting these!

 

These threads always have food for thought.