The Basiliscoe Mercury 224

(The Thracian helmet is pretty interesting-many photos.)


The Basiliscoe Mercury 224


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


A clutch of Spanish galleons found, sudden interest in cod pieces and how a Museum curator helped WWI. Memories of the Lusitania and VE day, while Waterloo gallops up on the wing.


Obituary


Zdzislaw Zygulski of Krakow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zdzisław_Żygulski,_Jr.

http://dzieje.pl/kultura-i-sztuka/zmarl-prof-zdzislaw-zygulski-junior


Arms and armour in the news

Ancient arms and fortifications


How Neanderthals changed their hunting patterns

http://popular-archaeology.com/issu...-changed-hunting-strategy-with-climate-change


Excavating Egyptian fortress in Sinai

http://luxortimesmagazine.blogspot.nl/2015/05/the-egyptian-army-headquarters-in-sinai.html


Helmet from Thracian grave goes on display - it’s quite startling

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/20...trojan-war-motifs-from-bulgarias-brestovitsa/


Stone mould for spear head found in Plovdiv

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/20...cast-in-plovdivs-old-town-rescue-excavations/


More terracotta warriors found at the mausoleum of China’s first emperor http://www.news.com.au/travel/trave...nt-emperors-tomb/story-e6frfq80-1227334856593


Round the world


Archaeologists see damage to Lebanon cultural sites

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...non-to-see-heritage-sites-damaged-by-conflict


International museums working on plan for threatened Middle East heritage

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/154741/


Palmyra latest site under threat

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/14/isis-syria-palmyra-iraq


Grave stories


Warrior grave found in Yorkshire

http://www.pocklingtonpost.co.uk/news/local/prehistoric-man-with-shield-found-after-dig-1-7234622


Research reveals the violence in lives in bones in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica
http://phys.org/news/2015-05-bone-analysis-reveals-violent-history.html


Piece on the Book of the Hereford Knight

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...-bodies-at-hereford-cathedral-to-release-book


Interesting piece on the medieval cemetery found in Paris recently

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/w...market-shines-a-light-on-citys-past.html?_r=1


Princesses and Amazons


Dress like a Viking

http://sciencenordic.com/fashionable-vikings-loved-colours-fur-and-silk


Eleanor of Aquitaine

http://artdaily.com/news/78358/Fine...Scottsdale-Auctions---Appraisals#.VUnIuLBFCUk


Ming tomb of Lay Mei

http://www.livescience.com/50817-ming-dynasty-tomb-gold-discovered.html


Miscellany - mainly medieval and renaissance


Castle building in Sweden

http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/10/the-building-of-castles-and-the-administration-of-sweden/


Codpieces and peascods

http://www.theguardian.com/books/20...odpieces-too-small-says-literature-researcher


And a slide show of some beauties!

http://www.theguardian.com/books/ga...dpiece-in-art-renaissance-fashion-in-pictures


Cannons to the left, cannon to the right
Nice picture of the iron cannons associated with La Salle in Texas http://www.dallasnews.com/lifestyle...-history-see-lasalles-cannons-in-victoria.ece

18th century cannon found in Bangalore - pictures & video

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities...y-unearthed-under-concrete/article7196608.ece

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/477040/buried-cannon-found-kr-market.html

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/fate-of-cannon-in-hands-of-dc/article7199440.ece

http://www.aninews.in/videogallery2/37385-18th-century-cannon-unearthed-in-karnataka.html


Piece on the explosion at Barre Gunpowder works in 1843: http://www.telegram.com/article/20150430/COLUMN21/304309981


Korean War cannon looking for new home

http://www.turlockjournal.com/section/14/article/29234/


On the Frontlines


Excavating Waterloo

http://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_404414_en.html


Investigating the site of the 1863 Bear River Massacre

http://westerndigs.org/site-of-deadliest-native-american-massacre-identified-in-idaho/


Into the 20th century


First reports from Gallipoli surveys

http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2015/04/archaeologists-dig-nitty-gritty-of-gallipoli


Feature on WWI helmets; two Met arms and armor curators for the price of one

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/05...at-helmet-was-born-in-the-trenches-of-france/


Quite a lot on VE day

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...hday-with-ve-day-fly-past-at-duxford-air-show

http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/pai...tts-victory-1945-a-poignant-memento-of-ve-day

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...images-marking-the-70th-anniversary-of-ve-day


Nautical news


Finnish archaeologists find 15th century wreck

http://www.ancient-origins.net/news...eologists-find-wreck-15th-century-ship-020323

http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/treasure-filled-wreck-found-in-finland-150505.htm


UNESCO sends mission to investigate 17th galleon off Panama

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-...entury_spanish_galleon_san_jose/#.VUtlpbBFCUm


1681 Spanish galleon investigated off Panama

http://www.kvue.com/story/news/loca...s-identify-sunken-spanish-shipwreck/27188163/

http://smmercury.com/2015/05/12/in-...identifies-sunken-1681-shipwreck-near-panama/

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...-merchant-ship-encarnacion-ocean-archaeology/


Lord Clive found off Uruguay

http://artdaily.com/news/78470/Afte...covered-off-the-coast-of-Uruguay#.VVBWpLBFCUk


Archaeologists raise gun from HMS Erebus

https://www.virtualpressoffice.com/...geToDisableHistory=Y&menuName=News&sId=&sInfo=


Texas A&M Conservation Research Lab begins work on CSS Georgia finds

http://www.stripes.com/military-lif...its-secrets-to-texas-a-m-researchers-1.344190


Remembering the Lusitania

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com...-civilians-die-in-wicked-atrocity-may-7-1915/

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com...-lusitania-part-2-death-and-blame-may-7-1915/


Museum news and exhibitions

News

SurreyRegimentalMuseum destroyed in Clandon Park Fire

http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/index.shtmlhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...ss-artifacts-lost-in-Clandon-House-blaze.html

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/article-1355895325746/


Napoleon returns to Les Invalides

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/conservation/154912/


Museum + Heritage UK awards

http://www.theguardian.com/culture-...eums-heritage-awards-2015-winners-in-pictures


New museums


Al Hisn Fort, Sharjah restored

http://www.thenational.ae/uae/tourism/sharjahs-al-hisn-fort-restored-to-glory


Expansion at London’s Royal Academy

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/155708/


Conservation corner


Don’t let these people near your Roman mosaics

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-32582162


Story behind building a replica Boulton Paul Defiant

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...es-the-man-who-built-the-boulton-paul-defiant


Objects


Light-hearted weapons quiz

http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/12/what-melee-weapon-would-you-use-on-a-medieval-battlefield/


Selection of objects from the new Civil War centre

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...hibits-from-the-new-national-civil-war-centre


Bonnie Prince Charlie's flute for sale

http://artdaily.com/news/78363/Bonn...-300th-Anniversary-Jacobite-Sale#.VUsdA7BFCUk


Wallace Collection's treasure of the month - Parisian sabre

http://www.wallacecollection.org/whatson/treasure/154


Machine gun captured at Iwo Jimain 1945 saved for museum

http://www.guns.com/2015/05/07/vintage-machine-gun-saved-from-the-torch-and-put-on-display/


WWII British rifle found hidden in building in Milan, Michigan

http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2015/05/world_war_ii_era_british_rifle.html


Exhibitions


Waterloo at Cambridge

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...als-its-rarely-seen-treasures-for-waterloo200


Art of weaponry at Shrewsbury

https://www.shropshiretourism.co.uk/shropshire-news/newarticle.php?id=3035


Waterloo in Leeds

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...artworks-with-arms-and-armour-from-the-battle


Waterloo in Scotland

http://www.nms.ac.uk/national-museum-of-scotland/whats-on/waterloo/


Antony Gormley in Florence

http://www.designboom.com/art/antony-gormley-florence-human-forte-di-belvedere-04-30-2015/


And round the UK

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32702277


Metalpoint at Washington

http://artdaily.com/news/78269/Myst...ition-at-National-Gallery-of-Art#.VUXcQ7BFCUk

http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/2015/leonardo-to-jasper-johns.html?from=home-page


Genghis Khan in Philadelphia

http://www.courierpostonline.com/story/life/2015/05/13/genghis-khan-re-examined-franklin/27242023/

https://www.fi.edu/


US Civil War in LA

http://artdaily.com/news/78275/Exhi...-the-turbulent-national-conflict#.VUXb4bBFCUk

http://theautry.org/


Books

Joseph G. Bilby: A Revolution in Arms; A History of the First Repeating Rifles

http://www.westholmepublishing.com/a-revolution-in-arms.php


Review of Brian Dillon's The Great Explosion: Gunpowder, the Great War and the Anatomy of a Disaster on the Kentish Marshes:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/books-feature/9519472/carnage-on-the-home-front-revisiting-a-forgotten-disaster-of-the-first-world-war


Histoire de l'artillerie nucléaire de Terre française 1959-1996

http://www.penseemiliterre.fr/histo...re-de-terre-francaise-1959-1996-_1016027.html

http://www.musee-armee.fr/collectio...et-de-recherche-du-musee-de-larmee-cerma.html



What the RAF Airman Took to War

http://www.shirebooks.co.uk/store/What-the-RAF-Airman-Took-to-War_9781784420550


Don N. Hagist: The Revolution's Last Men;The Soldiers Behind the Photographs

http://www.westholmepublishing.com/revolutions_last_men.php


Pen and Sword books

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


Online Book


Brill has made a number of recent articles available free online

http://brill-mail.com/25XA-3D0SG-68JO7RPQEB/cr.aspx



Popular culture

Knights at the movies

http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05...ing-at-representations-of-the-knight-on-film/


Reel history

http://www.theguardian.com/film/series/reelhistory


Novel about medieval handgun murders in 14thEngland

http://www.washingtonpost.com/enter...1712c0-d167-11e4-ab77-9646eea6a4c7_story.html



Events


Diary Dates


HBSA

https://sites.google.com/site/hbsauk/HBSA-calendar


Copenhagen

http://natmus.dk/museerne/toejhusmuseet/

http://natmus.dk/museerne/frihedsmuseet/

http://natmus.dk/museerne/orlogsmuseet/

http://natmus.dk/museerne/nationalmuseet/


Chivalry in Paris

http://www.musee-moyenage.fr/activites/programmation/le-chevalier.html


Vienna

http://www.hgm.at/


Skokloster

http://skoklostersslott.se/sv


Conferences

June 2015 Brussels

From battlefield to drawing room: textile and (military) fashion around 1815

http://www.klm-mra.be/klm-new/engels/main01.php?id=../congres/call-for-papers-en


31 July - 3 August 2015 Southampton

600th Anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt Conference 2015

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/agincourt2015/index.page?


4- 5 September 2015 Portsmouth

Guns from the Sea III

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



Websites and downloads


Royal collections of Spain

http://www.patrimonionacional.es/


Waterloo 2015

https://www.waterloo2015.org/en

http://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/sea...erloo-24855/?gclid=CIHCgZKHwcUCFaLMtAodYUkAtw

http://waterloo1815.be/


1066 etc


Beheadings, The Wallace, Icelandic iron and crusades

http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04...s-two-beheading-games-in-medieval-literature/

http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04...vidence-for-decapitation-in-medieval-ireland/

http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/03/william-wallace-the-man-behind-the-legend/

http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05...ion-in-viking-age-and-early-medieval-iceland/

http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05...onsible-for-the-results-of-the-third-crusade/


Finally


This fortnight I have been enjoying #Waterloo200 on twitter

https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe



Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown – 2015


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What Melee Weapon Would You Use On A Medieval Battlefield?

Two Handed sword it appears.