The Basiliscoe Mercury 255

The Basiliscoe Mercury 255


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


The end of summer brings in a flush of underwater stories, leading with the discovery of HMS Terror. In addition, a new book by Thom Richardson, updates on the searches for dead monarchs in Reading and Hungary and new films for the autumn.



Arms and armour in the news


Ancient arms and defences


Bronze age sword from western Zealand, Denmark found

http://www.thelocal.dk/20160831/3000-year-old-sword-found-in-denmark-and-its-still-sharp


And another bronze sword found under a football pitch in Carnoustie, Scotland

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...tish-football-pitch-date-far-4-000-years.html


Viking sword found in Iceland by goose hunters- lots of pictures

https://www.rt.com/viral/358354-viking-sword-iceland-archaeology/


Latest findsfrom medieval fortress of Kalyata Yakoruda, Bulgaria http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/20...-in-kalyata-fortress-near-bulgarias-yakoruda/


And Plovdiv….

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/20...val-fortress-nebet-tepe-in-bulgarias-plovdiv/


Searching for castles in NE Scotland

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/f...evidence-of-buchans-lost-castle-at-aden-park/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/4802-160830-scotland-medieval-castle


Beasts of assorted varieties…


Oldest snow shoe found in the Dolomites

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...wshoe-found-on-a-glacier-in-italys-dolomites/


Excavating a Byzantine stable complex in modern-day Israel

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/bre...ld-stable-exposed-in-negev-canyon/2016/09/08/

http://artdaily.com/news/89987/A-1-500-year-old-livestock-stable-found-in-the--Avdat--National-Park


Hunting still life acquired by Swedish National Gallery

http://artdaily.com/news/90110/Nati...hunting-still-life-by-Jan-Weenix#.V9pRyjH6t9A


Leeds Bengal tiger goes for some TLC

http://www.culture24.org.uk/science-and-nature/art561073-leeds-city-museum-bengal-tiger-object


Grave stories


Progress on Henry I, our latest king-under-a-carpark

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ther-king-henry-is-remains-found-beneath-tar/


Mary Rose crew’s remains go online

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37250413

http://www.maryrose.org/virtual-tudors-project/


Update on the search for Suleiman the Magnificent’s original tomb in Hungary

http://artdaily.com/news/89918/Poor...n-ruler-Suleiman-the-Magnificent#.V8_FkzH6t9A


Investigating 1665 plague victims (and their teeth)

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...1595-bedlam-burial-ground-great-plague-london


Recovering the remains of WWII marines from Battle of Tarawa

http://www.tulsaworld.com/homepagel...cle_b91b446b-d68a-556c-99b6-dfdb347c35f0.html


Visiting cemeteries

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...britain-best-cemeteries-graveyards-iona-arnos


Cannons to the left, cannon to the right


17th century cannon ball stolen from Anglesey Zoo

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/cannonball-run-thieves-anglesey-make-11830803


The story of Pole Tavern Cannon- cast in Naples, 1763, now in New Jersey:

http://allenbrowne.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/il-lugano-1763.html

http://www.nj.com/south-jersey-towns/index.ssf/2016/09/celebrate_upper_pittsgrove_twp.html


5 iron cannons move to new Philadelphia museum

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/20...-cannons-moved-to-their-new-home-in-old-city/


Japanese WW2 gun on the move

http://www.courant.com/community/manchester/hc-manchester-cannon-monument-0912-20160909-story.html


Living in the past


Fighting to Win: The Art of Sword Combat in the Early Modern Period

http://www.medievalists.net/2016/08...t-of-sword-combat-in-the-early-modern-period/


Café Basiliscoe


Salmon cooking in Alaska

http://westerndigs.org/ice-age-fire-pits-in-alaska-reveal-earliest-evidence-of-salmon-cooking/


…with toasted cheese

http://sciencenordic.com/burnt-cheese-casts-light-3000-year-old-family-drama


Miscellany


9th century mosque bombed in Yemen

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/conservation/ninth-century-mosque-destroyed-by-airstrike-in-yemen/


Fort Howard update

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/5/archaeologist-looks-for-remains-of-green-bay-milit/


Sheffield innovations

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...e-sheffield-millennium-gallery-design-history


Into the 20th century


100 years since the first appearance of the tank

https://www.theguardian.com/world/from-the-archive-blog/2016/sep/15/first-world-war-tanks-1916


Paul Klee and the Red Baron

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/in-the-frame/paul-klee-and-the-kaiser-s-flying-aces/


Aircraft wing found in Chichester Harbour

http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/blogs/news/2016/09/07/aircraft-wing-discovered-chichester-harbour


Nautical news


Why did the Mary Rose sink?

http://www.ancient-origins.net/news...sis-offer-clues-why-it-sank-006642?nopaging=1


Update on the Rooswijk, VOC ship lost off the Goodwin sands in 1740

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...561951-dutch-east-indiaman-goodwin-sands-kent

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/deal/news/divers-exploring-18th-century-ship-102055/

http://www.kentnews.co.uk/news/dutc...ent_coast_to_assess_ship_wreck_site_1_4687322

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-37355734


Searchingfor HMS Terror

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/14/world/americas/canada-franklin-arctic-hms-terror.html?_r=1


Finding HMS Terror

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ic-nearly-170-years-northwest-passage-attempt

http://www.ironmountaindailynews.co...oomed-British-expedition.html?isap=1&nav=5024


Battle on to save WW1 ship HMSPresidenthttp://www.kentnews.co.uk/news/batt...ial_Icon&utm_campaign=in_article_social_icons


German U-Boat 576 found?

http://www.timesunion.com/blogs/article/After-a-7-year-search-a-missing-German-U-boat-is-9195624.php

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/707535/Nazi-U-Boat-shipwreck-US-coast-WWII-relic


And HMS Tarpon?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...orld-war-british-submarine-hms-tarpon-denmark



Museum news and exhibitions


News


Met voted world’s top site

http://artdaily.com/news/90099/Metr...top-museum-in-TripAdvisor-awards#.V9kCeTH6t9A


New Museums


National Museum of African American History and Culture

https://nmaahc.si.edu/

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...erican-history-washington-architecture-review


Progress at Dundee’s V&A

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/scottish-government-bets-big-on-v-a-franchise/


Enniskillen castle museum re-opens

http://artdaily.com/news/89926/Enni...wing--pound-3-5-million-makeover#.V8_HTTH6t9A


Feature on the new National Museum of Oman

http://timesofoman.com/article/91559/HI/Travel/Oman's-National-Museum


Restoration at John Soane Museum

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/news/in-pictures-sir-john-soane-s-museum-unveils-7m-restoration-/


Museum developments


Oxford Museum Animation brings 2500-year-old vase to life http://artdaily.com/news/90030/Animation-brings-2500-year-old-vase-to-life#.V9UZi1VeI2I


Museum musings


Life after the museum for curators?

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/mus...uction-house-the-revolving-door-turns-faster/


Pondering a visit to the Imperial War Museum

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2016/allday070916.html


Conservation corner


New work on tree rings and carbon 14

https://www.laboratoryequipment.com...in-tree-rings-could-revolutionize-archaeology


Objects


Benjamin Franklin’s sword for sale

http://artdaily.com/news/90095/Benj...-and-Folk-Art-sale-at-Christie-s#.V9kDCTH6t9A


Exhibitions


Shadow puppets in London

http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/shadow_puppet_theatre.aspx


Graphene and beyond in Manchester

http://www.culture24.org.uk/science...-materials-graphene-manchester-museum-science


Lost monuments of Berlin at SpandauCitadel

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/.premium-1.740148

http://www.zitadelle-berlin.de/en/


Memling in NY

http://artdaily.com/news/88914/Hans...ited-in-exhibition-at-The-Morgan#.V8kxKzH6t9A


Neoclassical furniture at Philadelphia

http://artdaily.com/news/89649/-Cla...t-the-Philadelphia-Museum-of-Art#.V8qKLjH6t9A


A visit to London's Metropolitan police study collection of firearms

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/inside-scotland-yards-25-million-8794772



Books


Thom Richardson: The Tower Armoury in the Fourteenth Century

https://shop.royalarmouries.org/books-and-dvds/royal-armouries-publications/royal-armourhttps://ospreypublishing.com/sa80-assault-rifles


Rhine Pooja: English Factories & Gunpowder Production Technology in Medieval India

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Factories-Gunpowder-Production-Technology-Medieval/dp/3659774995


Helen MacDonald: Falcon

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/02/falcon-helen-macdonald-review-pd-smith



Sale of Brill titles

http://www.brill.com/brills-autumn-...m_source=Brill&dm_i=25XA,4HFET,JO7RPQ,GK7WK,1


Online books


Shared cultural history of the Netherlands and Japan

http://cultureelerfgoed.nl/sites/de...al_heritage_of_japan_and_the_netherlands_.pdf


An Archaeological Evaluation at Hougoumont

http://www.waterloouncovered.com/july-2015-fieldwork-report/



Popular culture


The Magnificent Seven

https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...n-chris-pratt-the-magnificent-seven-interview


Ben-Hur




Anthropoid

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/20...e-story-behind-world-war-two-film-anthropoid/


Female Syrian war poets

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/04/female-poets-of-syrian-war-turkey-middle-east


Events


Diary Dates


25 September- Walk round Stamford Bridge

http://www.medievalists.net/2016/09...ing-the-950th-anniversary-of-stamford-bridge/


Conferences


30 September 2016 - 1 October 2016 Wallace Collection

All Depends Upon the Brave: Recent Research into Museum Collections of Ottoman, Middle Eastern and Asian Arms and Armour

http://www.wallacecollection.org/ms/learn/conferences/


14 -16 October 2016 London

1066: Interpreting the Norman Conquest in 2016

https://www.royalarmouries.org/assets-uploaded/documents/1066_conference_updated_web_info_v_3.pdf


15 October Guildhall, Shrewsbury

Fortress Salopia Symposium- Shropshire’s military heritage

http://www.ucshrewsbury.ac.uk/news/...y-event-explore-shropshires-military-heritage



Sales, fairs and auctions


Hermann Historica oHG announces Autumn auction http://artdaily.com/news/89950/Hermann-Historica-oHG-announces-Autumn-auction#.V9EYktlUbp8.twitter



Websites and downloads


Video of lecture by Tobias Capwell onknightly effigies

https://www.youtube.cohttp://www.virtualtudors.org/


Medieval soldier website

http://www.medievalsoldier.org/


Netherlands maritime website

https://maritiemprogramma.wordpress.com/


1066 etc


War of the roses, sagas and Danish trade

http://www.medievalists.net/2016/09...ropaganda-conflicts-in-the-wars-of-the-roses/

http://www.medievalists.net/2016/09...eggs-interpretations-of-poetry-in-egils-saga/

http://www.medievalists.net/2016/09...us-norse-contact-and-trade-prior-to-columbus/


Finally


Not arms and armour but a fascinating read about recreating dinosaurs

https://www.theguardian.com/science...accurate-depiction-of-a-dinosaur-ever-created


This fortnight we tweeted castles in Yorkshire

https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe


Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown –17 September 2016


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HOLY PATOOTIE, Spring........you've been a busy little boy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh to be in Scotland ..... on the hunt and finds of rare old weapons!!!!!!!!!!!!! JUST to find them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The video on the German U-Boat 576 was very cool also!!!!!

 

In My dreams-but alas,not the time or money.