The Basiliscoe Mercury 333

The Basiliscoe Mercury 333


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


With the combination of floods and epidemic disease we have a new category for Catastrophes and Culture- let’s hope we don’t have to keep it permanently. Otherwise talks, conferences (including fascinating day at the Wallace Collection) and free downloads, as well as the usual news: Pictish warriors, Irish castles, Dutch paintings and a short film on my search for the Vasa cannon.


Arms and armour in the news


Ancient arms


Ancient swords

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history/swords-fate-0013295


Silver dagger restored

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...red-former-glory-nine-months-restoration.html


Pictish warriors on stone

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/f...nds-warrior-past-by-recreating-pictish-image/


Short illustrated article on Scandinavian runestones

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2020/02/17/the-stunning-viking-runestones-of-scandinavia/#32b6d01b5e4e


Publication on early medieval Frenchsepulchres- includes weapons

https://www.inrap.fr/saint-dizier-la-tuilerie-trois-sepultures-d-elite-du-vie-siecle-14890


Beasts of assorted varieties…


Domesticating the dog in the ice age

https://news.uark.edu/articles/5227...sistent-with-dog-domestication-during-ice-age


And is this the tomb of Romulus?

http://artdaily.com/news/120768/Rome-unveils-tomb-that-may-belong-to-wolf-suckled-king#.XlDyszFCd9A


Medieval forest laws

https://www.medievalists.net/2020/02/charter-forest/


Whaling in the 19thcentury

https://www.livescience.com/why-whaling-nineteeth-century.html


Through the arrow-slit . . .


Carrick Castle reopens after makeover

https://www.medievalists.net/2020/02/1-million-project-for-carrickfergus-castle-completed/


Underneath the Alhambra

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0832g29/the-hidden-world-beneath-the-ancient-alhambra-fortress


Lost chapeldestroyedby gunpowder found in Auckland Castle

https://www.medievalists.net/2020/02/long-lost-medieval-chapel-uncovered-in-northern-england/


Civil war finds from Caernarfon Castle

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/no...ts-unearth-incredible-pieces-history-17752143


Drake’s Island opens up for visitors again

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-51585416


Short piece on Fort Charles’ restoration, Jamaica

https://jis.gov.jm/features/500-year-old-heritage-site-to-provide-a-new-experience/


Erbil citadel update

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/restorers-making-headway-in-rehabilitation-of-erbil-citadel


Cannons to the left, cannon to the right


More on the recent cannon dug up near Pune, India

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/500-year-old-cannons-unearthed-in-thane-reveal-regihttps://civil-war-picket.blogspot.c...V6wMbCcUmaFLFuu3plY5ZKcrkTGlSJCSKmkVgk1-CaQ54


Café Basiliscoe


Eating on campaign

https://www.theguardian.com/food/20...eef-wellington-how-war-changes-the-way-we-eat


Miscellany


The joys of mud-larking

http://artdaily.com/news/120916/Mudlarks-scour-the-Thames-to-uncover-2-000-years-of-secrets#.Xke3KjFCd9A


Illegal metal detecting on ancient monuments increases

https://www.theguardian.com/culture...t-english-heritage-sites-doubles-in-two-years


A visit to Brighton’s 200-year-old gun shop

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/182...year-old-gun-shop-dont-say-anything-negative/


Investigating WWI helmets

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/21/8083...t-helmet-superior-shield-against-brain-trauma


Nautical news


Update from HMS Erebus

http://artdaily.com/news/121130/Shi...ing-seafarers-in-Canada-s-Arctic#.Xk-eUDFCd9A

https://nationalpost.com/news/trove...ht-on-last-days-of-doomed-franklin-expedition


Kings under the carpark are so passé- now it’s submarines under the hospital….

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/submarine-may-lie-beneath-hospital-site



Museum news and exhibitions


News


How one small Australian museum managed to save its historic gun collection

https://www.northerndailyleader.com...e-fight-for-historic-firearms-display/?cs=159


Feature on Port Dickson Army Museum, Malaysia

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/c...museum-honours-military-heritage-of-malaysia/


New museums


V & A Museum of Childhood to be redeveloped

http://artdaily.com/news/121068/New...13m-transformation-of-V-A-Museum-of-Childhood


Museum developments


Autism friendly tours for Bannockburn

https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/autism-friendly-tours-at-the-battle-of-bannockburn


And LGBT tours at the Royal Palaces

https://www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london/history-and-stories/lgbt-royal-histories/#gs.ycq6u3


Museum musings


Pitt Rivers talk direct to the Maasai people about returning artefacts

https://www.economist.com/britain/2020/02/13/oxford-university-restores-maasai-artefacts


Conservation corner


Conservation and research in the BM

https://blog.britishmuseum.org/100-years-of-science-and-conservation/


Hull’s maritime paintings restored

https://museumcrush.org/hulls-fine-collection-of-maritime-paintings-is-restored-and-returned-home/


Conservingtapestries

https://artdaily.com/news/121301/La...apestry-collections-in-the-world#.XljWvW52uUk


Cultural catastrophes


Art Newspaper’s roundup on Coronavirus

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/coronavirus


Latest of Italy

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/new...-italy-forced-to-shut-in-coronavirus-lockdown


Floods…

https://www.museumsassociation.org/...-community-rallies-round-flood-hit-pontypridd


Objects


Newly identified Artemisia Gentileschi painting with wonderful sword

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/new...misia-gentileschi-painting-revealed-in-london


Exhibitions


Nicholas Maes in London

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/nicolaes-maes-dutch-master-of-the-golden-age


Renaissance manuscripts in Philadelphia

http://artdaily.com/news/121079/-Making-the-Renaissance-Manuscript--Discoveries-from-Philadelphia-Libraries--on-view-at-Van-Pelt-Dietrich-Library-Center#.Xkz9mzFCd9A


AnIrish soldier in Philadelphia

https://artdaily.com/news/121309/Ta...fe-and-art-of-Richard-St--George#.XljXPG52uUk


Japanese arms, armour and arts in Utah

https://www.theutahreview.com/utah-...nity-for-deep-dive-into-japanese-art-culture/

https://umfa.utah.edu/


Books


Kelly DeVries and Michael Livingston (eds): Medieval Warfare: A Reader

https://utorontopress.com/us/medieval-warfare-2


Douglas McElvogue: Tudor Warship Mary Rose; Anatomy of The Ship

https://ospreypublishing.com/store/...his-month/tudor-warship-mary-rose-ebook-45327


Online books


Rönnby, Johan ed: On War on Board: Archaeological and historical perspectives on early modern maritime violence and warfare

http://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1391456/FULLTEXT01.pdf


The General Carleton

https://www.academia.edu/2323059/The_Shipwreck_General_Carleton_1785_Wrak_statku_General_Carleton_1785_Badania_Archeologiczne_Centralnego_Muzeum_Morskiego_t._I_Gdańsk_editor_2008


Edward Impey: A desperate wepon: re-hafted scythes at Sedgemoor in warfare and at the tower of London

https://www.cambridge.org/core/jour...kJAuBgpOBBjpcmCuaIslOI6Sgj1ptKnPleGFgRdKwvYCY



Popular culture

Visit the place where Outlander was filmed

https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/outlander-filming-locations


Events


Diary Dates


29 Feb


Arms Fair London

https://www.antiquearmsfair.com/


5 March Bridget Clifford at the Tower

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


Conferences


20 March Wallace Collection

After the Armoury

https://www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/conference-after-the-armoury/


Calls for papers


21-25 September: Toledo, Spain

ICOMAM 2020

https://ejercito.defensa.gob.es/eventos/icomam_toledo_2020/



Websites and downloads


Blogs on the Royal Arsenal and Frederick Abel

http://greenwichindustrialhistory.blogspot.com/


1066 etc Murten, Gawain and Robert of Gloucester

https://www.medievalists.net/2020/0...he-bold-and-the-survival-of-the-swiss-states/

https://www.medievalists.net/2020/0...ain-and-the-green-knight-sir-orfeo-and-pearl/

https://www.medievalists.net/2020/02/robert-of-gloucester-the-almost-king-of-england/


Finally: a short film on my search for the Vasa Cannon, channelling my inner Miss Marple, and her wardrobe…




This fortnight I tweeted cannon by Andrew Scalch of Woolwich

https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe



Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown – 29 February 2020

 

And if it WAS Romulus' tomb, I thought it looked pretty empty....but they couldn't decide either!!!!