The Basiliscoe Mercury 316

The Basiliscoe Mercury316


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


For those already missing Game of Thrones, we have a few look backs and references. Otherwise we have broken Viking swords, castles in Scotland, cannon in Asia and a chance to be in the next Met Journal.


Arms and armour in the news


Ancient arms and forts


Military site from the 26th dynasty found in Sinai

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsCon...-Dynasty-fortress-uncovered-in-North-Sin.aspx


2,300 year old bark shield found

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/may/23/2300-year-old-iron-age-bark-shield-leicestershire

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...e-archaeologist-ancient-warfare-a8927871.html


BrokenViking swords

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/05/charisma-violence-and-weapons-the-broken-swords-of-the-vikings/


Fortress gate in Bulgaria investigated

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/20...discovered-in-bulgarias-black-sea-city-varna/


Hunting round the world and through the ages


Controlling fishing in the middle ages

https://www.theatlantic.com/science...eval-people-were-already-ruining-fish/589837/


Grave stories


2,500 nomad graves with weapons and horses

https://www.livescience.com/65498-ancient-russia-burials-elite-nomads.html


2000 year old murder mystery on an uninhabited island off Spain

https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/05/16/inenglish/1558007577_536558.html


Have the bones of Queen Emma been found in Winchester?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engla...rchaeology&link_location=live-reporting-story


Lost tomb of Robert the Bruce goes to Dunfermline

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/05/lost-tomb-of-robert-the-bruce-finds-its-final-resting-place/


Through the arrow-slit – all Scottish. . .


Excavating Ardrossan Castle

https://www.ardrossanherald.com/news/17638475.ardrossan-castles-big-archaeological-dig-2019/


Reconstructing the home of the 15th century Lords of the Isles

https://phys.org/news/2019-05-medieval-home-lords-isles-virtually.html


The door of Craigievar castle

https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/opening-the-door-to-the-past-at-craigievar-castle


Through the gunloop


Searching for a 17th century Dutch fort in North America

https://www.delawarepublic.org/post...h-new-castles-17th-century-fort-casimir-again


Investigating Cromwell’s barracks in Lewis

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17657952.cromwells-scots-legacy-unearthed/


Interesting piece on the history of Fort Cornwallis, Penang (andphotograph of the 17th century Dutch cannon, Seri Rambai).

https://www.nst.com.my/lifestyle/su...rnwallis-shedding-light-penangs-early-history


19th century Pembroke’s gun-tower to be sold

https://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/...sappointment-at-sale-of-gun-tower/?ref=twtrec


Cannons to the left, cannon to the right


Another week, another bunch of old cannon dug up in India: Thane, Mumbai

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...ayed-at-thane-garden/articleshow/69500272.cms


Deogiri fort museum opens with cannon displays

https://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/rep...at-once-spat-fire-mounted-for-display-2750003


Historic cannon found off Phuket?

https://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30369826


Cast-iron guns from HMS Colossussold in Tasmania

https://www.examiner.com.au/story/6...m9qwa5BdBuRTRcy1Vw1GA2sLyArNqE_mw3YkzhpF2TEO4


Café Basiliscoe: this week’s menu


A delicious pot of lama face stew

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristi...w-under-a-house-in-ancient-peru/#76bc97dbdff1


Washed down with a choice of beers: Biblical beer

http://artdaily.com/news/113813/Israeli-researchers-drink-to-old-times-with-ancient-style-beer


Or monastic beer

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/21/belgian-monks-grimbergen-abbey-old-beer


Miscellany


Generic piece on medieval armour- I suspect cashing in on the end of GoT

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/medieval-knight-armor-0011910


Johan van Oldenbarnevelt’s lost diary found

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-diary-discovered-200-years-after-it-was-lost


Medicine the confederate way

https://popular-archaeology.com/art...s-blast-drug-resistant-bacteria-in-lab-tests/


Queen Victoria’s life in watercolours

https://museumcrush.org/how-victoria-and-albert-celebrated-their-reign-through-watercolour-painting/


Into the 20th century


Site of Nuremburg rally to be preserved but not restored

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/nazi-site-to-be-preserved-but-not-restored


An abandoned WW2 battlefield: Battle of Peleliu: https://www.argunners.com/solitude-shadow-death-battle-peleliu/


Nautical news


Germany to return 15th century Portuguese Navigator’s cross to Nambibia

http://artdaily.com/news/113669/Ger...entury-seafarer-Cross-to-Namibia#.XN_G4zHsZ9A


Looking for Elizabethan pirates in California

https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2019/may/15/feature-remnants-sunken-pirate-ship-emdesireem-led/


Sword blade – in very poor condition! Recovered from the Schiedam

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/treasure-hunter-finds-remains-sword-16171656


The Murujuga Mermaid: rock art & historic encounters of Australian exploration https://theconversation.com/the-mur...c-encounters-of-australian-exploration-116815


Virtual tour of shipwrecks in the Gulf

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article230373399.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...s-explore-five-shipwrecked-vessels-180972240/



Museum news and exhibitions


News


How the Met is faring

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/a-new-chapter-for-the-met


Update on the state of Notre Dame- spoiler alert- not good

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/analysis/notre-dame-is-unstable


New museums


UK’s Science Museum turns storage into exhibitions

https://www.theguardian.com/culture...lans-500-acre-site-to-show-off-lost-treasures


Museum developments


Animating the Hoplites!

https://aeon.co/videos/frozen-for-m...ier-is-freed-to-charge-into-battle-once-again


Fort Museum, Fort St. George Chennai installing 3Dtouchscreens

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...3d-touchscreens-soon/articleshow/69391901.cms


Rijksmuseum offers virtual tour in sign language

http://artdaily.com/news/113916/Rij...ideo-tour-in-Dutch-Sign-Language#.XOzoTjFwZ9A


Museum musings


The first museum was created 2,500 years ago….

https://theconversation.com/hidden-...nna-curator-of-the-worlds-first-museum-116431


BM and the Ethiopian request for restitution

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/british-museum-considers-loan-of-invisible-objects


Discussing dark museums

https://www.theguardian.com/culture...-spy-museum-washington-bin-laden-bugged-shoes


Conservation corner


Protecting art in wartime

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-48308512


Objects


Caravaggio or not Caravaggio?

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/feature/the-great-caravaggio-whodunnit


Painting of Cavalry by Salomon van Ruysdael goes to Birmingham

http://artdaily.com/news/113735/Dut...to-Barber-Institute-of-Fine-Arts#.XOOvlzHsZ9A


Batoni’s portrait of Colonel Gordon goes to Edinburgh

https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/colonel-gordon-goes-wild-and-majestic-in-edinburgh


Exhibitions


Leonardo drawings in London

http://artdaily.com/news/113790/Exh...rdo-da-Vinci-s-greatest-drawings#.XOZRUjHsZ9A


Manga in London

http://artdaily.com/news/113722/Bri...hibition-of-manga-outside-Japan-#.XOj6QTHsZ9A


Hamilton in Chicago

http://artdaily.com/news/113715/Hamilton#.XOJXmTHsZ9A


Baroque Spanish paintings in San Diego

http://artdaily.com/news/113658/Mor...bal-impact-of-Spain-s-Golden-Age#.XN_HdjHsZ9A


Books


Colin Dobinson: Operation Diver: Guns, V1 Flying Bombs and Landscapes of Defence, 1944-45

https://www.english-heritageshop.org.uk/books-media/operation-diver


Steven J. Zaloga: SU-76 Assault Gun

https://ospreypublishing.com/store/...-books/available-this-month/su-76-assault-gun


Leroy Thompson: The G3 Battle Rifle

https://ospreypublishing.com/store/...ooks/available-this-month/the-g3-battle-rifle


Online book


Reports from Roskilde Ship Museum

https://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/fagligt/marinarkaeologi/marinarkaeologiske-rapporter/


This one in particular will interest many! Undersøgelserne af ”kanonvraget” SWARTE ARENT

https://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/f...undersoegelserne-af-kanonvraget-swarte-arent/


Popular culture


And now our watch is ended…

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/05/and-now-our-watch-has-ended-a-look-back-at-game-of-thrones/


Mail is all the fashion this summer- blame it on GoT…

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2019/may/25/game-of-thrones-chainmail-invades-catwalk


Medieval gaming

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/05/learning-about-the-middle-ages-through-games-with-kyle-lincoln/


Events


Diary dates


6 June 2019 Lecture at the Arms and Armour Society

Classical Japanese Swordsmanship - Separating Legend and Myth from fact

Neil Grigg

https://www.thearmsandarmoursociety.org.uk/events/


Conferences


3 June 2019 Cambridge

Do Not Touch? 3D in Museums https://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk...ouch-3d-in-museums/do-not-touch-3d-in-museums


Calls for papers


September 2019 KyotoICOMAM 2019 Conference, Kyoto (Japan) http://icom-kyoto-2019.org/data/ima...8E-Qdx4KsoD_htE1_BHGVouQhJSu4YRKPyN4D4N8ckh3o


16-17 November 2019 Portsmouth

The Nautical Archaeology Society and the Ordnance Society

Wooden Walls and Stone Bastions

https://ordnancesociety.org.uk/events-2/


Sales, fairs and auctions


10 July 2019Thomas del Mar dates for 2019

http://www.http://www.medievalists.net/2019/05/changing-myth-king-arthur/

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/05/why-are-dragons-and-monsters-carved-into-norways-stave-churches/

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/05...nd-genoese-at-the-end-of-the-twelfth-century/


Finally- the Met wants you..

Call for Submissions: Metropolitan Museum Journal


The Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed Metropolitan Museum Journalinvites submissions of original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection. There are two sections: Articles and Research Notes. Articles contribute extensive and thoroughly argued scholarship. Research Notes typically present a concise, neatly bounded aspect of ongoing investigation, such as a new acquisition orattribution, or a specific, resonant finding from technical analysis. All texts must take works of art in the collection as the point of departure.


As of 2019, the process of peer review is double-blind. Manuscripts are reviewed by the Journal Editorial Board, composed of members of the curatorial, conservation, and scientific departments, as well as scholars from the broader academic community.

Articles and Research Notes in the Journal appear both in print and online, and are accessible via MetPublicationsand the Journal's home page on the University of Chicago Press website.

The deadline for submissions for Volume 55 (2020) is September 15, 2019.

Submission guidelines: www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/met/instruct

Please send materials to: journalsubmissions@metmuseum.org


This fortnight I will be tweeting pictures from Norfolk

https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe


Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown –31 May 2019


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