The Basiliscoe Mercury 298a

The Basiliscoe Mercury298


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


As usual, a mix of news- cricket and the VOC in Sri Lanka, German castles, new exhibitionof remembering World War I, Tipu Sultan rockets and Indian princesses, as well as renaissance armour in Rome. All this from a hot and thundery Yorkshire.



Arms and armour in the news


Ancient arms & forts


Military equipment recovered from the recent excavations at Sardis

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/traces-of-war-found-in-ancient-lydian-city-sardis-134494


Is the Western Wall crumbling?

http://artdaily.com/news/106449/Arc...n-Wall-check-up-after-stone-fall#.W1mExTG0V9A


Is there a future for Rome’s Aurelian walls?

https://www.9news.com.au/world/2018/07/15/21/22/ancient-rome-walls-at-risk-of-being-lost


Roman towers uncovered in Turkish province

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/...observation-towers-unearthed-in-turkeys-konya


Saxon warrior and his weapons found on Salisbury Plain- Putin denies involvement…

https://www.theguardian.com/science...lab-notes-the-guardians-weekly-science-update


Through the arrow-slit . . .


Discussing a fascinating fresco in Shropshire

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/07...-tapestry-and-its-connections-to-charlemagne/


Wressle castle

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/secret-castle-you-can-visit-1783336


German state reclaims Reinhardsbrunn Castle

https://www.dw.com/en/german-castle-expropriated-from-russian-owner/a-44701607


Finds from medieval Bulgaria

https://sofiaglobe.com/2018/07/23/a...itsi-fortress-at-bulgarias-euxinograd-palace/

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/20...of-montferrat-in-bulgarias-lyutitsa-fortress/


Through the gunloop…


Cricket and VOC forts don’t mix in Sri Lanka

http://artdaily.com/news/106318/Sri-Lanka-s-Galle-stadium-faces-axe-over-Dutch-Fort#.W1Lx8jG0V9A


17th-century artillery fort in Castlecome, Kilkenny , found

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/...uring-castlecomer-hotel-development-1.3565838


Tipu-era rockets found on a farm in Hosanagara, India https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes....find-a-few-years-ago/articleshow/65124509.cms

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ltan-rocket-cache-unearthed-in-abandoned-well


Grave stories


Has an early governor of Virginia been found?

https://wydaily.com/local-news/2018...ve-found-remains-of-virginias-first-governor/


DNA testing for the Tsar and his family

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-fresh-dna-authenticate-bones-russia.html


On the frontlines


Presenting Glencoe for the public

https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/giving-glencoe-a-fresh-focus


Revisiting Waterloo

http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/16340481.search-is-on-for-waterloo-relics/


Café Basiliscoe: This week’s specials


Prehistoric gazelle wrap

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44846874


Ancient Japanese fish stew in a pot

https://cosmosmagazine.com/archaeology/japan-s-love-affair-with-fish-began-very-early


Washed down with an Irish-Egyptian beer

https://www.leinsterleader.ie/news/...ancient-egyptian-beer-for-british-museum.html


Princesses and Amazons


The brilliant career of Nur Jahan, Empress of India

https://www.economist.com/books-and...rilliant-career-of-nur-jahan-empress-of-india


Lakshmibai & her fortress

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...ofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst


Into the 20th century


Crowd-funding excavations round Ypres

https://www.dw.com/en/dig-hill-80-a-day-at-crowdfunded-world-war-i-archaeology-dig/g-44669457


Remembering WWI (more about this under EXHIBITIONS)

https://museumcrush.org/lest-we-forget-how-we-choose-to-remember-the-first-world-war/


Nautical news


Calchis’ medieval port

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-theban-port-chalcisa-medieval-maritime.html


Update on Sweden’s Mars

http://sciencenordic.com/archaeologists-reveal-new-finds-legendary-swedish-warship


Update on the status of Colombia’s San José project

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/07/news-san-jose-shipwreck-colombia-salvage/

https://en.brinkwire.com/news/recov...to-17billion-of-treasure-moves-a-step-closer/


Latest news from this season dives on VOC ship Rooswijk

https://theisleofthanetnews.com/nin...0-rooswijk-wreck-on-goodwin-sands-identified/

https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/rooswijk-crew-shipwreck-silver-smuggled/


Unfurling HMSVictory’s sails

https://museumcrush.org/hms-victory...lly-unfurled-at-portsmouth-historic-dockyard/



Dmitrii Donskoii, Russian armoured cruiser sunk off South Korea 1905 found

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-rel...orea-s-ulleungdo-for-113-years-888321375.html


But doubts she was carrying a fortune in gold…

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/doubts-swirl-claims-gold-shipwreck-180969715/


U-966 German submarine Gut Holz found off Spanish coast

https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/07/09/inenglish/1531126146_043564.html



Museum news and exhibitions


News


Debating the future of Sydney’s Powerhouse museum

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/new...-most-expensive-gallery-relocation-in-history


Hurrah funding for curators

http://artdaily.com/news/106260/New...-curators-and-museum-collections#.W1BGKDG0V9A


Brexit and the arts

https://www.museumsassociation.org/...072018-reciprocal-visas-culture-sector-brexit


New museums


An open museum at the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, Bodrum, Turkey

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/bodrums-open-air-museum-project-launched-134627


New images of how Norwich Castle could be transformed in £13.5m project http://www.edp24.co.uk//news/norwich-castle-gateway-to-medieval-england-new-images-1-5620240?


Things to do with derelict palaces in St Petersburg

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jul/27/can-artists-save-st-petersburgs-crumbling-palaces


Museum musings


Long feature on Sir Richard Wallace and his collection

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/the-mysteries-and-marvels-of-sir-richard-wallace/


Yorktown’s current exhibition on artillery in 18th century America & the gun debates

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/trave...orktown-american-revolution-museum/805486002/


Life in the British school of archaeology, Iraq, over the years

https://www.theguardian.com/science...chool-archaeology-iraq-nimrud-agatha-christie


Conservation corner


Smithing for Picts

https://www.scotsman.com/regions/in...ings-the-handprint-of-a-pictish-man-1-4773260


Objects


Ashmolean launch a virtual Civil War in Oxford tour

https://ashmolean.org/civil-war-tour


Tomahawk goes on display at Albany, NY

http://artdaily.com/news/106214/Sta...returned-to-museum-s-collections#.W02iXzG0V9A


Museum given panoramic painting of Gettysburg

http://artdaily.com/news/106420/The...rtanburg-County-Public-Libraries#.W1g0CjG0V9A


Police helmets in Brighton

https://museumcrush.org/headgear-and-homicide-inside-the-old-police-cells-museum/


The unknown warrior’s rose

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...be-part-of-exhibition-about-national-mourning


Exhibitions


The Sikh empire in London

https://www.empireofthesikhs.com/exhibition/


CRW Nevinson: Prints of War and Peace in London

http://artdaily.com/news/106490/Bri...vinson--Prints-of-War-and-Peace-#.W1rTIzG0V9A


Remembering WWI

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...get-first-world-war-great-imperial-war-musuem


1918 in Paris

http://www.musee-armee.fr/programmation/expositions/detail/1918-armistices.html


Renaissance armour in Rome

https://www.art-city.it/mostre/armi-e-potere.html


Man and horse in NY state

http://artdaily.com/news/106364/Hyd...mines-relationship-of-man--horse#.W1WRUzG0V9A


Dutch marine painting in Washington

https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2018/water-wind-and-waves.html



Books


Chris McNab: The FN MAG Machine Gun- M240, L7, and other variants

https://ospreypublishing.com/store/...s/available-this-month/the-fn-mag-machine-gun


Latest from Osprey

https://ospreypublishing.com/store/military-history/upcoming-books/available-this-month


Online book


The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789–1815

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpu...content=20180708&utm_campaign=metpublications


Events


Jousting with English Heritage

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/whats-on/knights-jousts-events/


Jousting in Denmark

https://www.middelaldercentret.dk/en


1 September Leeds

Waterloo Study Day

https://royalarmouries.org/event/waterloo-study-day/


Conferences


ICOMAM in Slovenia

http://network.icom.museum/icomam/news/http://www.medievalists.net/2018/07/call-for-papers-medieval-equestrian-history-imc-2019/



Websites and downloads


Patrimonio Nacional, Spain

http://www.patrimonionacional.es/


INA

http://nautarch.tamu.edu/


1066 etc: Hill Forts, Battling Barons & Richard III

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/07/hill-forts-in-the-dark-ages-post-roman-britain/

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/07/failure-magna-carta/

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/07...oodville-faction-the-events-surrounding-1483/


Finally


This fortnight I have been enjoying @LadySaltpetre ‘s Daily Knight

https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe



Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown –29 July 2018


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