The Basiliscoe Mercury 296

The Basiliscoe Mercury296


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


Neanderthal spears, Dutch shipwrecks on land, Maya fortresses underwater, a stolen claymore and museums in Slovenia. The Rijksmuseum have plans to keep their summer visitors inside, while Beyoncé dances in the Louvre. All this and the weapons of Game of Thrones


Arms and armour in the news


Ancient arms


Spear hunting with Neanderthals

https://popular-archaeology.com/art...evidence-for-neanderthal-close-range-hunting/


Focus on Otzi’s tools

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-stone-tools-ancient-mummy-reveal.html


Bronze hand may be legacy of Roman invasion of Scotland

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...l-sculpture-bronze-found-latest-a8419131.html


Over the wall, through the gunloop


New discoveries at Tintagel castle

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-44486385


Intriguing story - underwater archaeologists explore the last bastion of Maya independence in Guatemala http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/ne...lore-last-bastion-maya-independence-guatemala


Repairing the walls of Famagusta

https://cyprus-mail.com/2018/06/10/conservation-works-at-ravelin-bastion-in-famagushttp://timesofoman.chttp://www.yourerie.com/news/local-news/car-crashes-into-historic-cannon-in-girardhttp://mesquitelocalnews.com/2018/06/the-re-discovery-of-the-fremont-cannon/


Miscellany


Shooting medieval guns

https://www.guns.com/2018/06/28/testing-out-some-15th-century-firepower-up-close-video/


Miss Ellen Tanner, her travels and collecting

https://museumcrush.org/the-forgott...ler-and-her-collection-of-middle-eastern-art/


Shuttleworth Collection- biplane from WWI – interesting read indeed!

https://museumcrush.org/how-to-fly-and-preserve-a-first-world-war-combat-veterhttp://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-n...ncient-greeks-drank-beer-4-000-years-ago.html


Swedish beer- older than the Vikings- official

https://popular-archaeology.com/art...eer-since-the-iron-age-new-evidence-confirms/


We take chocolate as payment…

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/maya-civilization-used-chocolate-money


Nautical news


Wrecks under threat

https://www.thenational.ae/world/europe/modern-day-pirates-jailed-for-plundering-wrecks-1.743119


Update on the Newport ship

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/06/what-we-are-learning-about-the-newport-medieval-ship/


Update on the Chesil beach site

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/16300321.Scuba_divers__mission_to_solve_shipwreck_mystery/


Update on Oregon’s Beeswax wreck

http://www.dailyastorian.com/Local_...highlights-beeswax-shipwreck-off-nehalem-spit


Update from HMS Invincible

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/ne...rking_on_historic_shipwreck_recover_a_cannon/


Archaeologists excavating 18th-century merchant ship in Noordoostpolder

https://www.rug.nl/news/2018/06/opg...jschip-in-de-noordoostpolder-begonnen?lang=en


Update on the looters at HMS Hermes

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/shipwreck-looters-who-plundered-historical-12771186


Researching World War II naval battle site off the coast of Okinawa https://popular-archaeology.com/art...s-insights-on-world-war-ii-naval-battle-site/



Museum news and exhibitions


News


Claymore stolen from museum on the isle of Canna

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uhttps://www.theartnewspaper.com/new...seums-to-give-discounts-to-world-cup-visitors


New museums


RAF Museum London re-opens

http://artdaily.com/news/105791/HRH...ns-transformed-RAF-Museum-London#.Wzc5ujG0V9A


New gallery on world culture at the Horniman

https://www.theguardian.com/culture...useum-new-exhibits-world-of-weird-forest-hill

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/gal...d-in-five-objects-at-london-s-horniman-museum


Museum of the family of Emperor Nicholas II

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/siberian-museum-memorialises-the-rohttp://artdaily.com/news/105752/Rijksmuseum-launches-Escape-Game#.WzXitjG0V9A


Museum musings


British museum accepts gift of Chinese ivories

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/new...tough-new-uk-regulations-to-protect-elephants


Conservation corner


A fascinating –and worrying- read!

https://www.theguardian.com/news/20...ect-fake-the-worlds-top-art-forgery-detective


How not to conserve a 16th century St George

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ed-restorer-st-george-ecce-homo-monkey-christ


Moving art collections out of Buckingham palace for refurbishment

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...lace-move-10000-artworks-during-refurbishment


Objects


Request for help- edged weapon found in Sweden- anyone?

https://aardvarchaeology.wordpress.com/2008/09/06/djurhamn-sword-measured/


Cromwell’s funeral banner?

http://artdaily.com/news/105410/Rar...royal-funeral-offered-at-Bonhams#.WyTTGTG0V9A


Napoleon’s hat for sale…

http://artdaily.com/news/105411/Is-...De-Baecque-et-Associ-s-in-France#.WyTQ3zG0V9A

http://artdaily.com/news/105494/Napoleon-fever-confirmed-as-hat-sells-for-350-000-euros


The Napoleonic Eagle standard captured at the Battle of Martinique https://museumcrush.org/the-napoleonic-eagle-standard-captured-at-the-battle-of-martinique/


Exhibitions


Sir Richard Wallace in London

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...-to-wallace-collections-founder-go-on-display


WWI & its artistic legacy in London

http://artdaily.com/news/105734/Exh...e-the-end-of-the-First-World-War#.WzSYOTG0V9A


Tattoos in Portsmouth

https://museumcrush.org/the-art-of-the-tattoo-heads-home-to-pompey/


Great Exhibition of the North in Newcastle

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...at-exhibition-aims-to-create-buzz-on-a-budget


Scots abroad in Edinburgh

http://artdaily.com/news/105400/New...cally-transformed-from-1760-1860#.WyTRXzG0V9A

https://www.nationalgalleries.org/e...land-nation-migration-globalisation-1760-1860


17th century Dutch design in Amsterdam

http://artdaily.com/news/105753/Rij...h-design-in-the-age-of-Rembrandt#.WzXh0TG0V9A


Lorenzo Lotto in Madrid

http://artdaily.com/news/105434/The...ion-on-Lorenzo-Lotto-s-portraits#.WyYhmjG0V9A


Islamic art in Florence

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/preview/the-medici-touch-how-florence-fell-for-islamic-art


The American Revolution in Washington

http://artdaily.com/news/105688/-Th...ibition-opens-at-the-Smithsonian#.WzHzIDG0V9A


Books


Latest titles from Osprey

https://ospreypublishing.com/


Online books & articles


Alessandro Senese: The True Handling of the Sword

https://guywindsor.net/blog/2018/06...es-the-true-handling-of-the-sword-yours-free/


Steven A Walton: "My works will be the best in America": Peter Townsend's Cannon Foundry, 1815-25

https://www.academia.edu/36707514/_MY_WORKS_WILL_BE_THE_BEST_IN_AMERICA_http://artdaily.com/news/105388/Cze...rpiece-finds-home-after-90-years#.WyTVETG0V9A


A novel for young people sparks hunt for a missingmasterpiece

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...assport-to-paradise-missing-one-magical-stamp

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...as-cracked-code-to-stolen-belgian-masterpiece


Beyoncé goes to the Louvre

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newhttps://www.theguardian.com/artandd...rt-tat-broke-out-of-the-gift-shop-merchandise


Designing the weapons on Games of Thrones

https://www.cnet.com/news/game-of-thrones-unsheathed-meet-the-woman-behind-the-swords/


Events


Diary Dates


What’s happening in France’s Maritime Museums

http://www.musee-marine.fr/


What’s happening in Vienna

http://www.musee-marine.fr/


What’s happening at the Middelaldercentret

https://www.middelaldercentret.dk/en


5 July Tower of London: Arms and armour society

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



Naval Dockyards Society 2019

Deep pockets needed for what sounds like a fascinating visit to Antigua

Not yet online but keep an eye on the website for more info:

https://navaldockyjohn.harris@chch.ox.ac.uk



Websites and downloads


The Historial

https://www.historial.fr/


Latest from Les Invalides

http://www.musee-armee.fr/fileadmin...nts/Echo-du-Dome/museearmee_echodudome_42.pdf


Photographic record of the ammunition collection at Firepower!

https://ordnancesociety.org.uk/2018/01/08/firepower-ammunition-photos/


Focus on Slovenia

https://www.parkvojaskezgodovine.si/en/

http://museu.ms/museum/63/Military-Museum-of-Slovenian-Armed-Forces

https://www.culture.si/en/Category:Museums

https://www.culture.si/en/Ptuj_Castle


Finally


This fortnight I enjoyed C B Newham FSA’s church visits: @cbnewham

https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe



Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown –30 June 2018


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