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    The Basiliscoe Mercury 330


    TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


    Wonderful 16th century bronze guns found in Chile, new book about Friederich III and a thesis on medieval firework books online. Otherwise cultural world dominated by depressing threat to bomb Iran’s heritage. On a happier note, museum book sales and fashion notes.


    Arms and armour in the news


    Ancient arms


    Update on Otsi’s hunting equipment

    https://www.archaeology.org/news/8313-191223-otzi-bow-quiver


    Miniature weapons to train children in their use

    https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology...ed-for-teaching-anthropologists-say-1.8345781


    English Heritage get a new Roman fort on Hadrian’s Wall

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...-gifted-to-englands-historic-sites-collection


    Vikings, bad weather and rune stones

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...reme-winter-study-says?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other


    1000 year old weapon cache found in Poland

    https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/yotvingian-0013100


    Beasts of assorted varieties…


    More about Greenland, Vikings and walruses

    https://www.medievalists.net/2020/0...e-collapse-of-norse-greenland-study-suggests/


    Fishing like it was1299

    https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/medieval-fishing-basket-001https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/vienna-discovery-like-tutankhamun-s-tomb


    And while we are in this cathedral- did Durer work here- exciting discovery!

    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/new...drawing-thought-to-be-work-of-albrecht-duerer )


    Investigating bodies from the Alamo

    https://www.livescience.com/bodies-at-alamo-cathedral.html


    Through the arrow-slit . . .


    Pahpos castle re-opens

    https://cyprus-mail.com/2019/12/23/paphos-castle-re-opens-after-more-than-two-months/


    Castles for sale

    https://www.medievalists.net/2020/01/16th-century-scottish-castle-for-sale/

    https://www.medievalists.net/2020/01/french-castle-for-sale-manoir-de-la-sausserie/


    Fort San Huan, and itsfinds

    https://eu.citizen-times.com/story/...oara-and-fort-san-juan-western-nc/2697072001/


    Cannons to the left, cannon to the right


    Two bronze Spanish pieces dug up in Chile- satisfying and jaw-dropping!

    https://www.abc.es/cultura/abci-canones-espanoles-mundo-201912230920_noticia.html?fbclid=IwAR1ANHk4buR2fmnkpHvv7-qgXhttps://www.malaysiakini.com/news/505854

    https://www.malaymail.com/news/mala...annons-dug-up-during-works-on-seawall/1824326


    Asian round-up


    The dojigiri, created by sword maker Hoki Yasutsuna in the Heian period https://japantoday.com/category/picture-of-the-day/anciehttps://www.newsweek.com/hundreds-m...s-unearthed-tomb-chinas-first-emperor-1480096


    Back to the front


    Remembering the Alamo- but how?

    http://artdaily.com/news/119441/How...o--Battle-site-or-burial-ground-#.Xgh6Mm52uUk


    Living in the past


    Montreal group trying to re-enact the war of 1812

    https://montrealgazette.com/news/lo...red-1810-cannons-to-re-enact-long-ago-battles


    Miscellany


    BM buys medieval seal with sword

    http://artdaily.com/news/119460/Bri...0-year-old-seal-on-third-attempt#.Xgh5R252uUk


    Ten top medieval weapons

    https://www.medievalists.net/2020/01/most-important-weapons-middle-ages/


    There will be a lot of remembering Thomas a Becket in 2020

    https://www.theguardian.com/culture...cket-in-1170-to-be-marked-with-year-of-events


    Trebuchet memes,,,

    https://www.science101.chttps://www.nationalgeographic.co.u...ied-clues-may-reveal-identities-mystery-women


    Into the 20th century


    WWIgraffiti investigated and preserved

    https://www.dw.com/en/in-france-underground-mementos-of-world-war-i/a-51811497



    Museum news and exhibitions


    News


    Canberra art gallery closes due to forest fires

    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/new...-closes-due-to-bushfire-smoke-around-canberra


    Three UK entries for European Museum of the Year

    https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/12122019-three-uk-museums-emya-2020


    Museum returns tomahawk to Seneca nation

    http://artdaily.com/news/119943/Sta...hawk-to-Seneca-Nation-of-Indians#.XhmbpDFCd9A


    Museum musings


    How should museums deal with Nazi memorabilia?

    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/new...er-collectors-market-should-museums-show-them


    War crimes and Iran

    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/ana...ill-be-criminally-liable-by-international-law

    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/comment/iran-heritage

    https://www.museumsassociation.org/...e-bodies-condemn-trump-threat-iranian-culture


    Conservation corner


    Finding the secrets of a Senufo mask helmet https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/buried-treasures-the-hidden-secrets-of-the-senufo-mask


    Photographing church interiors and monuments

    https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...-to-photograph-every-parish-church-in-england


    Technology behind Japanese swords

    https://www.science101.com/katana-swords-ancient-high-tech/


    Exhibitions


    2020 British museum exhibitions- some corkers!

    https://blog.britishmuseum.org/whats-on-at-the-british-museum-in-2020/


    And more details on the Arctic exhibition

    https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/jan/09/arctic-treasures-melting-ice-british-museum


    Indian cottons in Zurich

    https://www.landesmuseum.ch/les-indiennes


    Overview of exhibitions at the Met

    https://www.medievalists.net/2019/1...nd-making-marvels-at-the-metropolitan-museum/


    Vietnamese art from shipwrecks in San Francisco

    http://www.asianart.org/exhibitions/lost-at-sea



    Books


    M.C. Bishop: The Spatha; The Roman Long Sword

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


    Alexandra Rose and Jane Desborough: Science City. Craft, Commerce and Curiosity in London, 1550-1800

    https://www.scalapublishhttps://shop.khm.at/en/shop/?shop[featured]=1

    https://www.boutiquesdemusees.fr/fr/selection/soldes-5836/1/

    https://shop.royalarmouries.org/collections/books-dvds


    Online Book


    Axel Müller: The Firework Book: An edition, translation, and analysis of Royal Armouries Ms. I.34 as an example of tradition and change in fifteenth‐century gunpowder technology.

    http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/...k5JT5XKq2afEAhoZdM07swhndZfBjN-CYCKQHGW-8F0xU



    Popular culture


    The best World War I films

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jan/10/before-1917-revisiting-greatest-first-world-war-movies


    Sam Mendes on 1917

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...-to-itself-sam-mendes-and-colin-firth-on-1917


    Codpieces are making a comeback….

    https://www.theguardian.com/fashion...envy-fashion-reinvents-16th-century-accessory


    …and Breastplates for women

    https://www.theguardian.com/fashion...s-up-for-the-new-high-fashion-fad-boob-armour



    Websites and downloads


    Arms and Armour society’s website

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


    1066 etc: Heraldry, Crusaders in Antioch, Mortimers in Ireland & infamous queens

    https://www.medievalists.net/2020/01/what-is-heraldry/

    https://www.medievalists.net/2020/01/evolution-account-duke-godfreys/

    https://www.medievalists.net/2020/01/disputed-isle-the-foundations-of-mortimer-power-in-ireland/

    https://www.medievalists.net/2020/01/queens-of-infamy-with-anne-theriault/



    Finally


    This fortnight I have been enjoying Jane Siddell’s 12 swords-rests of Christmas! https://twitter.com/InspectorSidell


    https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe- this month: lost cannon of Sebastopol



    Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown –12 January 2020


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