The Basiliscoe Mercury 328

The Basiliscoe Mercury328


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


More iron guns found in India, Siberian puppies, destroying crusader castles & Peter the Great in Moscow. And the annual Christmas shopping in museums


Arms and armour in the news


Warriors, Hunters and their dogs


Polish warriors and their weapons found in graves

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news%2C79521%2Cancient-warrior-graves-2000-yearhttps://wwhttps://www.sciencealert.com/the-in...ir-home-with-some-very-special-and-tough-dogs


Through the arrow-slit . . .


Destruction of Montfort crusader castle discovered

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology...-found-at-crusader-castle-in-israel-1.8180395


Investigating a lost basement of Lahore fort

https://www.bolnews.com/amazing/2019/11/archaeologist-finds-secret-basement-in-lahore-fort/


Battle stations


Marking the battle of Varna

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/20...-ottoman-empire-defeated-christian-europeans/


Protecting Culloden

https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/protecting-culloden


Cannons to the left, cannon to the right


Trebuchet shot found at Hay Castle

https://museumcrush.org/centuries-o...het-ball-found-where-they-fell-at-hay-castle/


Camphor in your gunpowder

https://medium.com/@siwaratrikalpa/...uct-in-medieval-german-gunpowder-60e0bc6929cc


Contemporary 1620 mention of murderers in North America

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/thanksgiving-belongs-wampanoag-tribe/602422/


Indian cannon- two stories:

1. Two more found https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...s-found-buried-at-kp/articleshow/72284107.cms

2. What happened to the last ones

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...tage-panel-disagrees/articleshow/72299847.cms


New future for Long Tom of Parkersburg

https://www.wtap.com/content/news/L...ed-by-Parkersburg-City-Council-564820751.html


Tealby’s cannon, stolen 30 years ago, returned in mysterious circumstances

https://www.bbc.chttps://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/frederick-iii-tomb-0012878


Medieval sword fighting

https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-writings/flower-battle-manuscript-0012882


Paintingsfrom British India

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-50542353


Princesses and Amazons


Another skeleton of an Amazonian warrior found?

https://www.ibtimes.sg/archaeologis...woman-warrior-deep-wounds-injured-bones-35026


Apparently the Hapsburgs were inbred- who knew? (I think we had guessed)

https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/42758/20191128/royal-inbreeding-throughout-history.htm


Portrait of the young queen Elizabeth identified

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...ueen-elizabeth-i?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Outlook


Café Basiliscoe: this week’s menu


Barbecued clams

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2019/11/barbequed-clams-on-the-menu-for-ancient-puerto-ricans/124885


Potatoes: there’s a whole museum of potatoes

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...tato-museum-could-stave-off-world-food-crisis


Served with choice of beverages: Beer of the Pharaohs

https://www.scientificamerican.com/...n-vats-5-600-years-old-were-for-beer-brewing/


Or something a little more modern

https://www.buryfreepress.co.uk/news/new-beer-for-micro-brewery-s-20th-anniversary-908https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-50545293


Into the 20th century


Pioneering aerial photography from WWI Jordan

http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/british-scholar-takes-aerial-glance-jordans-past


Muslim soldiers of WWI

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46124467


Canada’s black soldiers of WWI

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova...-pictou-first-world-war-anniversary-1.4040018


Obituaries


Noble Frankland

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/nov/21/noble-frankland-obituary


Nautical news


Anew ship burial identified onNorwegian island

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/viking-ship-burial-0012902


Nice piece on Alex Hildred of the Mary Rose

https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/people/archaeologist-who-helped-to-excavate-the-marhttps://arstechnica.com/science/201...wedish-channel-may-be-sisters-of-doomed-vasa/


Update from the Mentor

https://neoskosmos.com/en/151676/diving-the-mentor-revealing-the-secrets-of-elgins-ship/


Update on the search for the Beagle

https://www.yellowad.co.uk/archaeologists-searching-rochford-for-remains-of-darwins-ship/


Update on the Franklin expedition

http://geographical.co.uk/people/explorers/item/3525-inside-terror


Cannons of USSConstitution

https://www.wearethemighty.com/history/uss-constitution-original-guns?rebelltitem=2


Tampico- Mexican gunboat sunk in 1914 located off coast of Sinaloa

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/revolution-gunboat-that-sank-in-1914-located-off-coast-of-sinaloa/



Museum news and exhibitions


News


Green vault in Dresden targeted by thieves

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/thieves-steal-priceless-baroque-jewels-from-dresden-museum

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/com...on-but-why-the-germans-are-still-really-upset


RAF Museum get funding for their "Hidden Heroes" project. http://artdaily.com/news/118588/Che...m-to-celebrate-Jewish-RAF-Heroes#.XdevrjFFB9A


New museums


Estonian Maritime Museum reopens

https://www.baltictimes.com/estonia...rises_visitors_with_700_years_old_ship_wreck/


Museum musings


Too many people going to art galleries?

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...-are-our-galleries-now-hopelessly-overcrowded


Conservation corner


Investigating de Hooch paintings

http://artdaily.com/news/118779/Mus...ies-in-Pieter-de-Hooch-paintings#.XeDkJTFCd9A


Sword making in London

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/vide...this-london-blacksmith-forges-replicas-of-me/


Objects


Cody Firearms Museum identify long-lost Winchester

https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily...-antique-gun-on-top-of-the-world-hiking-trail


Napoleon’s boots sold

https://news.az/articles/world/143779


Japanese swords for sale

http://artdaily.com/news/118911/Jap...-Militaria--Arms---Armor-Auction#.Xed5rzFCd9A


Exhibitions


Leonardo Da Vinci in Edinburgh

http://artdaily.com/news/118591/Lar...s-in-Scotland-opens-in-Edinburgh#.XdeupzFCd9A


Indian company paintings at the Wallace collection

https://www.wallacecollection.org/forgotten-masters-indian-painting-east-india-company/


Peter the Great in Moscow

https://www.kreml.ru/en-Us/exhibiti...r-i--issledovatel--khudozhnik--kollektsioner/

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/pre...ibition-details-tsar-s-huge-cultural-impact-1


Balthazar in LA

http://artdaily.com/news/118551/Get...in-Medieval-and-Renaissance-Art-#.Xde0CG52uUk


Books


Les canons de l'élégance

https://boutique.musee-armee.fr/fr/...lexposition-les-canons-de-lelegance/1399.html


Latest books from Ken Trotman

http://www.kentrotman.com/


Online book


Tattershall castle moat

https://researchttps://www.theguardian.com/film/20...n-front-horror-into-a-single-shot-masterpiece


At last the game that lets you be a museum director- The thrills! The spills! The firings!

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/mondo-museum-game-1704516


The Knight before Christmas

https://www.medievalists.net/2019/11/medieval-movie-review-the-knight-before-christmas/


But Norwich is not impressed...

https://www.edp24.co.uk/going-out/the-knight-before-christmas-reaction-norwich-castle-1-6401417



Websites and downloads


1066 etc: 100years war, Bayeux & Robert the Bruces’s letter

https://www.medievalists.net/2019/12/tales-from-the-hundred-years-war-try-with-me-some-feat-of-arms/

https://www.medievalists.net/2019/11/viewing-the-bayeux-tapestry-now-and-then/

https://www.medievalists.net/2019/12/crowdfunder-launched-to-protect-king-of-scots-letter/


Finally Christmas shopping special!


Sterling

https://www.nts.org.uk/shop/

https://www.royalcollectionshop.co.uk/?_ga=2.109545861.1802083463.1575215397-387804905.1550751097

https://shop.nms.ac.uk/ (check out the Lewis chessman decorations!)

https://wallacecollectionshop.org/

https://shop.royalarmouries.org/

https://shop.historicenvironment.scot/?_ga=2.181734755.5563960.1528102017-1595220340.1526988894

https://www.english-heritageshop.org.uk/

https://www.nationalgallery.co.uk/#_ga=2.36870375.635126709.1575217039-760085966.1575217039


Scandinavian currency


https://en.natmus.dk/sales-and-services/museum-shops/

https://middelaldercentret.dk/shop/


Euros

https://www.rijksmuseumshop.nl/nl?u...=webshop&utm_content=button_homepage_giftshop

https://www.boutiquesdemusees.fr/fr/

https://shop.skd.museum/webshop/gifts.html

https://shop.khm.at/en/


Dollars

https://store.philamuseum.org/

https://www.si.edu/visit/museum-stores

https://store.metmuseum.org/


And you’ll definitely want to check out the Last Knight range

https://store.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/last-knight-art-armor-ambition-maximilian


I am tweeting my annual Advent Calendar: this year cannon in the natural world

https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe



Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown –5 December 2019


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