The Basiliscoe Mercury 294

The Basiliscoe Mercury 294


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


Due to recent legislation in Europe, a number of American news outlets have decided not to let those in the EU access their sites, so I am sure there are stories I can no longer read. Let’s hope they sort something out soon.

In the meantime several articles on repatriating museum objects, Hamilton’s pistols and more stunning pictures from the Columbian shipwreck


Arms and armour in the news


Ancient arms


Ancient breastplate found in Slovakia

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/20...aranto-discovered-at-celtic-sacrificial-site/

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6617-180514-slovakia-bronze-breastplate


Ten artefacts from Roman Scotland

https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/...-relics-the-romans-left-in-scotland-1-4741699


Roman fittings from Poland

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6618-180515-poland-roman-army


Reinvestigating Sutton Hoo

http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/first-di...ial-site-could-reveal-new-treasures-1-5527556


Beasts of assorted varieties…


Taming donkeys 4000 years ago

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/bu-aue051418.php


Finding a horse (and its stable) in Pompeii

https://www.livescience.com/62595-pompeii-horse-found.html


Researching the history of the falcon and falconry

https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/art/how-the-falcon-became-a-symbol-of-regal-power-1.734132


Grave stories


More on the massacred army in a Danish bog

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/05/germanic-barbarian-alken-enge-battle-ahttp://www.jewishpress.com/news/isr...liest-evidence-of-blood-vengeance/2018/05/16/


Café Basiliscoe


Recreating a 200 year old beer, inspired by a shipwreck

https://www.techly.com.au/2018/05/28/worlds-oldest-beer-aussie-shelves/


Miscellany


War- blame it on the weather

https://popular-archaeology.com/art...e-and-fall-of-ancient-european-civilizations/


Short feature on Windsor castles’ chapel

http://artdaily.com/news/104683/Royal-wedding-venue-steeped-in-British-history#.WwFFgzGG99A


Unravelling a 17th century painting

https://museumcrush.org/norwich-castle-unpacks-the-treasures-of-the-paston-treasure-painting/


Cannons to the left, cannon to the right


Quarrels over German trophy in Saskatchewan

http://leaderpost.com/news/saskatch...on-members-quarrel-over-reclaiming-ww1-cannon


Orange County’s old cannon

https://www.orangeleader.com/2018/05/23/and-now-you-know-courthouse-cannon-tells-tragic-story/


Derry walls to roar with cannon fire in history pilot scheme http://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2018/05/19/news/derry-walls-to-rohttp://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/art-entertainment/200544/excavations-begin-on-ancient-sites.html


Cast-iron cannon found in Vellore temple, Indiahttp://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/silent-history-cannon-found-in-vellore-temple/articlehttp://greece.greekreporter.com/201...cient-greek-treasures-while-digging-trenches/


Nice piece about the Spitfire

https://museumcrush.org/the-royal-air-force-museums-battle-of-britain-veteran-spitfire/


Ten objects from the RAF Museum

https://museumcrush.org/10-stories-and-objects-from-the-royal-air-force-museum/


Obituaries


David Baxter- writer on basket-hilted swords

http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/224028/baxter


Nautical news


17th century Dutch shipwreck investigated in Bermuda

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6618-180515-poland-roman-army


More on the San Jose

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/22/world/colombia-shipwreck-discovery-trnd/index.html

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/new-details-of-sunken-treasure-ship-released/4405413.html

http://www.catchnews.com/world-news...old-ship-with-treasure-worth-17bn-114577.html


Update on the Victory

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/new-details-of-sunken-treasure-ship-released/4405413.html


What’s happening in Scapa Flow

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...rine-life-climate-change-diving-a8345071.html


Buster Crabb and Navy divers

https://museumcrush.org/buster-crabb-and-the-dawn-of-underwater-frogman-warfare-in-world-war-two/



Museum news and exhibitions


News


UK’s lottery funding drops

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/museums-suffer-as-heritage-lottery-grants-plummet


History painting of Ivan the Terrible vandalized

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...the-terrible-seriously-damaged-in-pole-attack


Museum developments


Museums get to gripswith new technologies

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/new-technology-is-a-game-changer-for-conservators


Using drones

https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/were-not-droning-on


Museum musings- all repatriation stories


Berlin returning Alaskan artefacts

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/new...kan-grave-artefacts-looted-by-german-explorer


And another call for the UK to returncolonial era artefacts

https://www.theguardian.com/culture...cts-to-build-bridges-post-brexit-olusoga-says


France responds

http://artdaily.com/news/104951/France-weighs-how-to-return-Africa-s-plundered-art#.Wwu5sjGG99A


And this is the sort of thing they are talking about

http://artdaily.com/news/104952/Troubled-exhibits--five-disputed-museum-treasures#.Wwu5_zGG99A


Conservation corner


Ethics of scanning museum objects

http://www.capradio.org/news/npr/story?storyidhttps://www.theartnewspaper.com/new...xpert-on-korean-art-with-conservation-project


Conserving a gun from the USS Maine

http://newsstand.clemson.edu/mediar...restoring-a-cannon-raised-from-the-uss-maine/


Objects


Missing masterpieces- including Japanese swords

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...fed-to-pigs-the-greatest-missing-masterpieces



Making their shot count- Burr-Hamilton pistols go on show

http://artdaily.com/nehttp://artdaily.com/news/104830/Spe...to-National-Galleries-of-Scotland#.WwfJPDGG99


Exhibitions


The Roman dead in London

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/24/london-roman-bones-jewels-gold-museum


Women in WW2 in Boston

http://artdaily.com/news/104868/International-Museum-of-World-War-II-opens-women-in-WWII-exhibit#.WwfGzTGG99A


Books


Antony Beevor: Arnhem- The Battle for the Bridges, 1944

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/177016/arnhem/#srhhttps://nauticalarch.org/ina-quarterly/



Popular culture


Art and the First World War

https://museumcrush.org/tate-britain-on-how-art-was-changed-by-the-first-world-war-and-aftermath/


A fragment of Wagner that survived bombing

http://artdaily.com/news/104680/-Mad--king--Ludwig-II-of-Bavaria-lost-gift-to-composer-Richard-Wagner-gets-rare-shhttps://https://www.theguardian.com/fashion...-back-into-the-spotlight-with-a-mexican-rodeo


Events


Diary Dates


7June -Arms and Armour Society, Tower of London

Fencing in Renaissance Italy

http://www.condottiero.com/ep675p9oyht9/armsandarmoursociety/home.html


14-15 July Solingen

Sword festival

http://www.klingenmuseum.de/_english/dkm/schwertfestival/generelle-informationen.html


Conferences


ICOMAM in Slovenia

http://network.icom.museum/icomam/news/http://wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=75965&copyownerid=115929



Websites and downloads


Imperial War Museums

https://www.iwm.org.uk/


Waffenmuseum, Suhl

https://www.waffenmuseumsuhl.de/


1066 etc:Invasions, fighting ladies & medieval Scandinavian treasures

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/05/blood-cries-afar-the-forgotten-invasion-of-england-1216/

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/05/fighting-in-womens-clothes-the-pictorial-evidence-of-walpurgis-inhttp://www.medievalists.net/2018/05/how-forgetting-about-medieval-treasures-saved-them/


Finally


This fortnight I tweeted travels in the South and the Midlands- cannons and effigies

https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe



Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown – 29 May 2018


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Thanks for the repost. Some intriguing stories.