The Basiliscoe Mercury 208

The Basiliscoe Mercury 208
TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community
A number of interesting underwater wreck stories, fine foods and beverages at Café Basiliscoe, books from Denmark, downloadable Dublin guides and some new museum websites
Arms and armour in the news
Ancient arms
Bronze Age sword from the River Shannon
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/bronze-age-sword-recovered-from-river-shannon-30508634.html
Warrior with his weapons and horse found in Kazakhstan
http://en.tengrinews.kz/science/Elite-Turkic-warrior-burial-discovered-in-Kazakhstan-255136/
Greek tomb from the time of Alexander found
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28758920
A new future for Augustus mausoleum?
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Augustus-to-rise-again-in-Rome/33410
Battles, towers and forts
Game of thrones meets Hadrian's Wall
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...e-faces-who-saved-and-preserved-Hadrians-Wall
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...d-proves-hes-a-chipper-chap-for-Hadrians-Wall
And new, not-connected-to-Game-of-Thrones, discoveries on the Wall
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...ct-makes-two-important-finds-on-Hadrians-Wall
Excavating Ravenglass
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-28913880
Violence in 12th century Mesa Verde
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index...ecades-of-violence-in-12th-century-mesa-verde
Ludlow’s walls still falling down
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-28867077
Alt Wartenburg - destroyed 1354 - investigated
http://www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/178737,Archaeologists-hail-Warmian-Pompeii
Remembering Bosworth
http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/5...h-remembered/story-22807178-detail/story.html
Grave stories
One armed giant warrior and his weapons found in Siberia
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/forgotten-warrior-unearthed-in-siberia/505623.html
A career investigating dead royalty…
http://eponymousflower.blogspot.co....ed:+TheEponymousFlower+(The+Eponymous+Flower)
Richard III to be reburied next March
http://artdaily.com/news/72003/Engl...ervices-at-Leicester-Cathedral-in-March-2015-
Through the gunloop…
Modern technology reveals possible civil war trenches at Basing House
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-28760768
Looking for Quebec fortress
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montr...-reveals-abenaki-fortress-in-quebec-1.2732240
19th century fortress for sale - needs boat
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/aug/14/thames-disused-fort-for-sale
Cannons to the left, cannon to the right
19th century Turkish RML up for sale, with a history
http://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/local-news/cannon-with-a-tale-to-tell-1-6797562
Dorset’s steam gun tractor goes for an outing
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/ne...tractor_set_to_be_transported_through_Dorset/
Stray shots
Civil war shot and shells detonated for safety
http://www.timesunion.com/news/us/a...ound-detonated-in-New-York-quarry-5685516.php
The lawyer who shot himself to prove a point...
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28805895
Still duelling over pistols in Northern Ireland
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/n...elay-in-testing-200yearold-guns-30509906.html
Walking Harwich beach may be a hazardous experience, with all those grenades...
http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/harwich_fifth_wartime_grenade_found_washed_up_on_beach_1_3729992
Café Basiliscoe
Barbequed pigeon?
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/aug/07/neanderthals-barbecued-pigeon-gibraltar
and snails…
http://popular-archaeology.com/issu...nd-humans-were-eating-snails-30-000-years-ago
...washed down with 200 year old vodka
http://news.yahoo.com/still-drinkable-200-old-booze-found-shipwreck-121828218.html
...and don't hog all those bottles of wine, Richard...
http://popular-archaeology.com/issu...sts-confirm-richard-iii-led-a-royal-lifestyle
Round the world
Hunting kangaroos the Aboriginal way
http://phys.org/news/2014-08-kangaroos-aborigines.html
More on Gaza's culture
http://www.artdaily.com/news/72142/Long-neglected-Gaza-heritage-wilts-in-war#.U-5FIGOrzCk
Into the 20th century
The forgotten WWI battlefields of Africa
http://artdaily.com/news/72376/One-...s-of-Africa-s--forgotten--World-War-I-battles
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28836752
One nurse's experiences in WWI
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...08-Curator-Choice-diary-nurse-Veronica-Nisbet
Belgium remembers atrocities
http://artdaily.com/news/72313/Memories-of-German-WWI-atrocities-haunt-Belgium#.U_cIT2OrzCk
Records of WWI officers
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...he-records-of-140000-First-World-War-officers
Nautical news
Scilly wrecks
http://www.cornishman.co.uk/Scilly-...ins-possibly/story-22756033-detail/story.html
No sign of the French fleet missing off Florida since 1565
http://staugustine.com/news/2014-08...tery-after-divers-spend-weeks-looking-florida
Gresham wreck may be Elizabeth's pirate ship lost 1603 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tml?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
New discoveries from the Coronation
http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk...s-Coronation/story-22713671-detail/story.html
Colonial wreck in Florida
http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20140811-905761.html
Feature on two 18th century American wrecks
http://popular-archaeology.com/issu...he-stories-of-two-18th-century-american-ships
Wreck discovered in Cuban waters
http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/cuba/1336-marine-archeological-finding-reported-in-western-cuba
Looking for HMS Solebay, lost 1782
http://www.henriettapost.com/article/20140820/NEWS/140829915/1994/NEWS?rssfeed=true
SS Thistlegorm from Glasgow, sunk in the Red Sea in 1941 http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/wwii-era-ship-remnants-red-sea-stun-photos-article-1.1893776
Swash Channel wreck's finds on view
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...eck-gives-up-some-its-secrets-at-Poole-Museum
Naval hospital at Netley
http://www.theguardian.com/artandde...orld-war-photographs-documentary-philip-hoare
Museum news and exhibitions
News
Ownership of Spain's art collection in dispute? http://www.theartnewspaper.com/arti...-Masters-belong-in-the-Royal-Collection/33372
London National Gallery encouraging photography
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Snap-decision/33417
New museums
Denmark at War displays in Copenhagen
http://natmus.dk/en/toejhusmuseet/exhibitions-at-the-royal-danish-arsenal-museum/denmark-at-war/
Museum developments
Newark's Civil War Centre lets you relive the Siege of Newark
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...blockbuster-English-Civil-War-live-action-app
Florence Nightingale's letters digitalized
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...published-online-in-transatlantic-web-project
Crowd-sourcing your catalogues
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/aug/18/volunteers-british-museum-crowdsourcing-archeology
Conservation corner
Nelson Museum trying to raise money to conserve flag
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...WI-flag-commemorating-sinking-of-HMS-Monmouth
Objects
Theft of panels from Orkney's Italian Chapel
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/aug/18/theft-listed-orkney-chapel-international-response
Exhibitions
Ming treasures in London next month
http://www.theguardian.com/artandde...um-empire-strikes-back-50-years-changed-china
Round up of WWI exhibitions in the UK
http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/05082014-exhibitions-launched-wwi-centenary
Commonwealth Scots and WWI in Edinburgh
http://www.nms.ac.uk/national-museum-of-scotland/whats-on/common-cause/
Vikings in Berlin
http://ww.artdaily.com/news/72127/P...tin-Gropius-Bau-museum-in-Berlin#.U-5F02OrzCk
Portrait medals in Renaissance Germany
http://www.khm.at/en/visit/exhibitions/contests-in-ore/
Arch-Duke’s collections in Vienna
http://www.khm.at/en/visit/exhibitions/a-passion-for-art/
Ottawa’s exhibitions
http://www.warmuseum.ca/exhibitions/
Review of the Frick’s Men in Armor
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/22/a...and-pulzone-at-the-frick-collection.html?_r=1
Cultural losses in Washington
http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/2014/library-loss-preservation-wwii.html
Books
Danmarks krige
http://www.museumsbutikken.dk/default.aspx?data=productinfo&Key=9788789022499&load=main
Samlingsudstillingerne - Tøjhusmuseet
http://www.museumsbutikken.dk/default.aspx?data=productinfo&Key=9788789022512&load=main
The Treasure Collection of Rosenborg Palace
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/T/bo15198693.html
Jonathan Bikker: The Night Watch
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/webwinkel/#/webwinkel/rijksmuseum-publications/the-night-watch
Fred A. Farrell: Glasgow's War Artist
http://artdaily.com/news/72253/-Fre...rback-by-Philip-Wilson-Publisher#.U_SNnWOrzCl
New books from the British Museum
http://www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/books+media/new+future-releases/icat/new_releases
Latest from the Bodleian
http://www.bodleianbookshop.co.uk/
Online books
Antony Firth: East Coast War Channels in the First and Second World Wars-English Heritage Project 6586
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/east-coast-war-channels-first-and-second-world-wars/
Downloadable guidebooks to the National Museum of Ireland
http://www.museum.ie/en/list/guide-books-all.aspx
Getty’s virtual library
http://www.getty.edu/publications/virtuallibrary/index.html
Popular culture
Red Arrows meet Anish Kapoor
http://www.artdaily.com/news/72144/...batic-Team-announced-by-Artliner#.U-5EtWOrzCk
BBC radio dramatization of C J Sansom's Dark Fire, Tudor thriller http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04f9frh
Events
Diary Dates
NAM events
http://www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on
Duxford air show
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...-reunion-with-Avro-Vulcan-and-Flying-Fortress
HBSA calendar
https://sites.google.com/site/hbsauk/HBSA-calendar
Vienna
http://www.hgm.at/
Conferences
5-7 November 2014 Birmingham
3rd Postgraduate Conference in Conflict Archaeology http://birminghamconflict2014.wordpress.com/programme/
October 8-10, 2014 Moscow
ICOMAM CONGRESS
http://www.icomamos.ru/en/about
Calls for Papers
15-16 April 2015- Royal Air Force Museum & the Royal Air Force Centre for Air Power Studies From ‘Shooting the Front’ to Combat ISTAR: The Evolution of Aerial Intelligence and Reconnaissance
http://www.alwaysresearching.com/20...on-of-aerial-intelligence-and-reconnaissance/
Websites and downloads
New website for Swiss National Museums
http://www.nationalmuseum.ch/e/
Including some of the arms and uniforms
http://www.nationalmuseum.ch/e/microsites/sammlung/waffen.php
20th century military heritage
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/...ional-heritage-protection-plan/activities/4e2
1066 etc
Rune stones, conquering Danes, wars of the Roses and Hungarian castles
http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/18/ancient-viking-art/
http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/19/danish-conquest-1000-years/
http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08...-le-morte-darthur-literary-cultural-analysis/
http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/22/castle-building-social-significance-medieval-hungary/
Finally this fortnight we have been following the MGRG’s making medieval saltpetre
https://twitter.com/LadySaltpetre
Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown – 25 August 2014
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Springfield Arsenal, thank you, thank you, thank you for posting the link (with all of its links). DH can't wait until tomorrow when he hopes to have time to read it in depth.

 

Yes, Thanks very much!