The Basiliscoe Mercury 301

The Basiliscoe Mercury 301


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


Most interesting thing this week are the helmets found by a mushroom picker! Surprising number of stories related to hunting round the world - from Austria to New Zealand. Otherwise new galleries at Greenwich, the home of the Kaiser saved and the net closes in on HMS Endeavour (possibly).


Arms and armour in the news


Ancient arms


Two Bronze Age helmets found picking mushrooms in Slovakia

https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20913941/mushroom-picker-finds-precious-helmets-from-late-bronze-age.html


Gladiator relief found in Bulgaria

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/20...olis-ad-istrum-near-bulgarias-veliko-tarnovo/


Investigating Iron Age defences in Turkey

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2018/09/18/traces-of-iron-age-wars-found-on-double-skin-wall


Beasts of assorted varieties…


Ice age wolf cub and caribou calf found in Yukon

https://www.theguardian.com/science...ice-age-wolf-pup-and-caribou-dug-up-in-canada


Woolly mammoth killing fields found in Austria

https://metro.co.uk/2018/09/07/grisly-ancient-stone-age-woolly-mammoth-kill-site-discovered-7922563/


Hunting moas

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...ears-indigenous-groups-own-decline-180970225/


Mayans kept pumas in cages

https://www.livescience.com/63558-copan-bones-jaguar-captivity.html


Grave stories


Finding King Arthur

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/09/the-discovery-of-king-arthur-and-guinevere-at-glastonbury-abbey/


1354 Lithuanian invasion victim found in Poland

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/ne...-invasion-1354-discovered-pompeii-warmia.html


Through the arrow-slit . . .


Excavating Pembroke castle may have revealed birthplace of Henry VII

https://www.theguardian.com/science...thplace-of-henry-vii-found-in-pembroke-castle


Recreating Sheffield Castle

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-45587064


Cannons to the left, cannon to the right


Cannons on Indian forts still at risk

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...-headed-towards-doom/articleshow/65738887.cms


Update on the cannons fromThalassery.......

https://english.mathrubhumi.com/new...still-remain-inaccessible-to-public-1.3150652


Back to the front


Volcanoes and Waterloo

https://www.livescience.com/63494-napoleon-defeat-waterloo-volcano.html


Living in the past


Modern problems in past times

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/dagorhir-ragnarok-women-metoo_us_5b44e1afe4b048036ea31fcb


Recreating Henry VIII’s pavilions

https://www.theguardian.com/culture...ii-tent-field-of-cloth-of-gold-reconstruction


Bringing Falkland Palace to life

https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/the-falkland-palace-apothecary


Café Basiliscoe


Pomegranates

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology...ld-history-of-pomegranate-reverence-1.6461970


Babylonian beer

https://cosmosmagazine.com/archaeol...that-bronze-age-babylonians-really-loved-beer


Posca- for the roman soldier in a hurry

https://qhttps://www.irishexaminer.com/break...s-first-world-war-training-trench-867272.html


Nautical news


Painting of the Spanish Armada up for export

http://artdaily.com/news/107653/Rar...Spanish-Armada-at-risk-of-export#.W6S3KzHQZ9A


16th century wreck found near Lisbon

http://artdaily.com/news/107692/Nex...r-at-Pillar-Hall--Olympia-London#.W6S0IjHQZ9A


Archaeologists hope they are closing in on Cook’s Endeavour

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...hms-endeavour-discovered-off-coast-of-america


Napoleon’s barge on the move from Paris to Brest

http://artdaily.com/news/107673/Bar...parte-in-1810-on-the-move-again-#.W6S0uTHQZ9A


Iron cannon found off Kinsale- hard to tell from the picture

https://www.southernstar.ie/news/fa...on-from-1600s-is-fishermans-catch-of-the-day/



Museum news and exhibitions


News


Dutch royal family save Kaiser’s last home

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...save-former-home-huis-doorn-kaiser-wilhelm-ii


Update on Brazil: Fire precautions to be improved

http://artdaily.com/news/107559/Brazil-orders-museums-to-boost-fire-protection-#.W5toJzHQZ9A


New museums


V&A in Dundee

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/dundee-s-designs-on-culture-bring-v-and-a-to-scotland


New galleries opened at Greenwich

http://artdaily.com/news/107753/Roy...g-500-years-of-human-exploration#.W6YPMzHQZ9A


Museum musings


UK ivory ban beginning to hit problems

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/com...eat-to-liberty-says-former-lord-chief-justice


Conservation corner


Restoring Dulle Griet- the painting not the cannon!

http://artdaily.com/news/107749/Res...r-reveals-colour-and-discoveries#.W6YOpzHQZ9A


The delights of conservativeminiature portraits

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/interview/the-miniatures-conservator-who-sees-the-bigger-picture


Objects and collectors


How to make a living out of collectingNapoleonia

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/...on-paris-biennale.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share


Portrait of the young Charles II in armour for sale

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...dycks-portraits-future-charles-ii-sister-sale


WWI panorama and memorial found in Museum store

https://museumcrush.org/found-the-2...-inside-a-museum-storeroom-for-over-30-years/


Exhibitions


HMS London at Southend

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-45521765


New archaeological discoveries from Germany in Berlin

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/pre...er-from-worlds-oldest-sculpture-to-bombed-art


Callot in Mannheim

http://artdaily.com/news/107635/Exh...opens-at-the-Kunsthalle-Mannheim#.W59ygDHQZ9A


Cannons and other finds from the Mercedes go on show

https://murciatoday.com/temporary-e...ring-of-spains-sunken-treasures_649360-a.html


47 Ronin in New York

https://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/47-ronin



Books


Neil Grant: The Luger

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


Online Book


The Geometry of War 1550-1750

https://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/geometry/content.htm



Popular culture


Soldiers’ art in WWI

https://museumcrush.org/the-art-the-soldiers-made-during-the-first-world-war/


Lovely article about Magic lanterns!

https://www.livescience.com/63508-magic-lantern-victorian-netflix.html


Duelling in real life and on the screen

https://theconversation.com/pistols...uelling-than-whats-seen-on-our-screens-101665



Events


Conferences


ICOMAM in Slovenia

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


Material Culture of War

http://deremilitari.org/2018/07/cfp-material-culture-of-war-imc-leeds-2019/


Sales, fairs and auctions


13 October London

London Antique Arms fair

http://www.antiquearmsfairsltd.co.uk/

http://artdaily.com/news/107692/Nex...r-at-Pillar-Hall--Olympia-London#.W6S0IjHQZ9A


Highlights from Hermann Historica’s autumn sale

https://www.hermann-historica.de/en



Websites and downloads

1066 etc


Archers, Brunanburh & video games

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/09...economic-status-of-english-archers-1367-1417/

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/09/searching-for-brunanburh-the-yorkshire-context-https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe



Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown –24 September 2018


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Thanks spring. Some really impressive info.

I find this one puzzling though:

I have never seen helmets picking mushrooms. Mind you, they must have been hungry after thousands of years.