Basiliscoe Mercury 272 from about last June

im pretty sure I didn't post this one yet. Hopefully the links in it are still alive?

The Basiliscoe Mercury 272


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


More on singing slingshot, and a couple of things on stone hunters. Updates on a number of 17th century grave stories. Crusader castles and Indian forts and cannons. Shipwrecks and exhibitions - something for everyone…



Arms and armour in the news


Hunting round the world and through the ages


Hunting bison 10, 000 years ago

http://www.kansas.com/news/local/article153093719.html


New research on dating prehistoric rock paintings

http://popular-archaeology.com/issu...tly-dated-rock-paintings-from-southern-africa


Ancient arms


Glass spearhead found in Australia

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-rare-glass-spearhead-rottnest-island.html


Slingshot from Palestine

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-slingshot-stones-were-aerodynamic-dig-reveals-.ahttps://www.sciencenews.org/article/big-viking-families-nurtured-murder


Grave stories


Investigating a skeleton found in Nottingham Castle

https://nottstv.com/appeal-launched...-mysterious-skeleton-found-nottingham-castle/


The bones of Jamestown

http://www.richmond.com/entertainme...cle_e89f46ed-13b1-58fb-aa66-666840ed6929.html


Update on the Thirty Years War graves

http://www.livescience.com/59302-germany-thirty-years-war-grave-revealed.html


Through the arrow-slit . . .


Montem Mound, Slough- Anglo-Saxon burial mound, not a motte

http://www.sloughexpress.co.uk/gall...-of-the-montem-mound-finally-been-solved.html


10 crusader castles

http://www.heritagedaily.com/2017/06/10-crusader-castles/115219


Crusader tunnel discovered near the port of Tiberias

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=42885


Through the gunloop…


Visit to the Museum in Fort St George, Chennai (Madras)

http://www.thehindu.com/society/his...portrait-of-british-india/article18730395.ece


Visit to Hunza-Baltit Fort and Karimabad

http://nation.com.pk/blogs/05-Jun-2017/once-upon-a-time-in-hunza-baltit-fort-and-http://www.theweek.co.uk/85200/review-stranded-at-sea-on-no-mans-fort


Cannons to the left, cannon to the right


Cannon stolen from a Rajasthan fort

https://www.bhaskar.com/news/RAJ-AJM-OMC-antique-gun-stolen-from-fort-5620050-PHO.html


Searching for old cannons in Mumbai – some pictures http://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/other/on-the-cannon-trail/articleshow/58969611.cms


Civil War cannon goes on display in Michigan Military Heritage Museum, Grass Lake

http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2017/06/civil_war_era_cannon_in_grass.html


Civil war cannon for Athens Park, Missouri

http://nemonews.net/2017/06/07/athens-park-receives-gift-cannon/


Medina looking to fix World War I Elswick cannon http://www.thedailynewsonline.com/bdn01/medina-looking-to-fix-rare-cannon-2017053https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/05/rice-domestication/528288/


Dining with Dickens- not for the faint-hearted!

http://museumcrush.org/boiled-lambs-head-with-a-salamander-what-charles-dickens-had-for-dinner/


Miscellany


Piece about Greek Fire

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/th...ntine-empires-secret-weapon-the-ancient-20955


Interesting article on Dublin’s Wellington Monument

http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/g...-s-diary-on-the-wellington-monument-1.3117105


Feature about the history of Watervliet Arsenal

https://www.dvidshub.net/news/236633/not-wars-revolution-help-save-americas-arsenal


Into the 20th century and beyond


The Pentagon’s new super weapon Is basically a weaponized meteor strike

http://taskandpurpose.com/kinetic-bombardment-kep-weaponry/


Nautical news


Searching for the Griffin

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/great-lakes-shipwreck-griffon


Plans to raise the Spitfire, sunk 1776

http://www.lcmm.org/shipwrecks_history/shipwrecks/spitfire.htm


Update on the cannon from USS Revenge

http://uk.businessinsider.com/the-n...y-think-was-war-of-1812-ship-2017-6?r=US&IR=T


HMS Astrea: Early 19th century ship's log reveals artistic wonder for auction

http://artdaily.com/news/96407/Earl...p-for-auction-at-Swann-Galleries#.WTJwMuQ2x9A


Update on the Hunley

http://www.postandcourier.com/news/...cle_cb5eb8f8-4b8b-11e7-ae8f-5be3172b6240.html


Update on the fate of HMAS Perth- not too good

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...ip-hmas-perth-ransacked-by-illegal-scavengers


IT Artigliere found in the Mediterrean

http://www.news.com.au/technology/e...r/news-story/111229b35d01e031b01c454e3532794b


Story of one of the Dunkirk fleet

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-40042331



Museum news and exhibitions


News


Changes at the Met

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/mus...el-weiss-also-takes-over-as-chief-executive-/


Visiting the Berman Museum

http://www.guns.com/2017/06/09/the-weird-and-unusual-guns-of-the-berman-collection-photos/


The top exhibitions from 2016

https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?te...red-by-london-and-washington?CMP=share_btn_tw


New museums


Garden Museum in Lambeth re-opens after redevelopment

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...-hallowed-ground-lambeth-tradescant-dow-jones


V&A’s new photography centre

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/v-a-reveals-plans-for-photography-centre/


National Gallery of Ireland re-opens

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/mus...-s-grand-reopening-worth-the-protracted-wait/


Objects


Restoring tapestries in Belgium

http://artdaily.com/news/96691/Bringing-ancient-tapestries-back-to-life-in-Belgium-#.WUDujuQ2x9A


Illustrated article on treasures from the Royal Armouries

http://museumcrush.org/armour-effig...d-wonderful-objects-from-the-royal-armouries/


Exciting work on Hilliard’s portraits of Queen Elizabeth

http://museumcrush.org/is-this-life...y-by-englands-greatest-painter-of-miniatures/


Portrait of Philip III by Velasquez goes on show

http://artdaily.com/news/96520/-Por...e-first-time-at-the-Prado-Museum#.WTe4FuQ2x9A


Jacobites crossover into Outlander territory

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...l-museum-of-scotland-diana-gabaldon-outlander


Exhibitions


Scythians coming to London for autumn

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/new...om-hermitage-museum-including-ancient-lumps-/


Celebrating 70 years of Indian independence- exhibitions

http://artdaily.com/news/96657/70th...celebrated-with-new-exhibitions-#.WT-gHuQ2x9A


Elizabethan portraits at Waddesdon Manor

https://waddesdon.org.uk/whats-on/elizabethan-power-portraiture-hilliard/


Regency miniatures in Compton Verney

http://artdaily.com/news/96635/Spec...niversary-of-Jane-Austen-s-death#.WT6R0OQ2x9A


Scottish warriors in Aberdeen

https://uoamuseums.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/2017-scotlands-year-of-history-heritage-and-archaeology/


Peter the Great in Versailles

http://en.chateauversailles.fr/news/exhibitions/peter-great-tsar-france-1717

http://artdaily.com/news/96341/Pala...te-on-Peter-the-Great-exhibition#.WS_QATE2x9A


Franco-Prussian War in Paris

http://www.musee-armee.fr/programma...0-1871-la-guerre-la-commune-les-memoires.html


Exhibitions in Dresden

http://www.skd.museum/en/special-exhibitions/index.html


WWI in Neuremburg

http://www.gnm.de/en/exhibitions/current-and-upcoming/wartime-in-the-national-museum/


Renaissance urban maps in Nuremburg

http://www.gnm.de/en/exhibitions/current-and-upcoming/the-most-beautiful-cities-in-europe/


Exhibitions in Berlin

http://www.dhm.de/en/ausstellungen/


Summer at the Frick

http://www.frick.org/exhibitions


Exhibitions in Tokyo

http://www.rekihaku.ac.jp/english/index.html



Books


Weird War Two

http://www.iwmshop.org.uk/product/25923/Weird_War_Two?_ga=2.140131955.1973245221.149630723http://www.museumsbutikken.dk/en/bo...seum/publications-from-the-national-museum-2/


Online Book


Ming China: Courts and Contacts 1400-1450: conference proceedings

http://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/205_Ming_China_Courts_and_Contacts.pdf



Popular Culture


Students confuse fiction and fact…

http://artdaily.com/news/96341/Pala...te-on-Peter-the-Great-exhibition#.WS_QATE2x9A


JaneAusten and the Napoleonic wars

http://museumcrush.org/jane-austen-the-war-novelist-and-worldly-businesswoman/


Samurai armour for pets…

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/06...-offers-samurai-armor-for-pets/3491496847608/


Modern jousting

http://www.wallacecollection.org/blog/2017/05/deeds-not-words-the-history-of-modern-jousting/



Events


Diary Dates


Opening days for Milford Haven Victorian fort

http://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/n...t_and_Museum_opens_for_exciting_third_season/


8-9 July Vienna re-enactments

http://www.hgm.at/de/nc/museum/vera...how/Event////montur-und-pulverdampf-2017.html


Conferences


24 June 2017 Ludlow

Memorials in the Marches: Monuments in the church of St Laurence, Ludlow

http://www.ludlowpalmers.uk/Ludlow_Monuments.pdf


17-18 July 2017 Cody Firearms Museum, Buffalo Bill Center of the West Wyoming

Arsenals of History: Firearms and Museums in the 21st Century

https://centerofthewest.org/2017/03/29/registration-open-firearms-symposium/

http://www.ktvq.com/story/35585129/...arsenal-of-history-firearms-symposium-in-july


September, Germany – places still available

ICOMAM

https://icomam-germany2017.de/


15-17 November 2017, Canterbury

Black Prince Conference

https://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/whats-on/event/blackprinceconference/


Calls for papers


3D Imaging in Cultural Heritage Conference

The British Museum, 9-10 November 2017

https://www.3dimaginginculturalheritage.org/



Sales, fairs and auctions


Preview for Thomas Del-Mar sale

http://artdaily.com/news/96557/Notable-collections-to-be-offered-by-Thomas-Del-Mar-Ltd#.WTpnSeQ2x9A


28 June 2017 London

Arms, armour and militaria

http://www.thomasdelmar.com/



Websites and downloads


Mariners Mirror-free articles

https://snr.org.uk/the-mariners-mirror-archive/

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00253359.1958.10658372


Royal Navy Wooden Shipwrecks Database

http://www.3hconsulting.com/rnshipwrecks.html


Museums in Germany

http://www.frankfurt.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=5021811

http://www.hamburg.com/museums/

http://www.kassel.de/englisch/culture/museums/


1066 etc


100 Years War, Joan of Arc & earls

http://www.medievalists.net/2017/06...-according-english-combatant-writers-1327-77/

http://www.medievalists.net/2017/06...s-france-england-hundred-years-war-1337-1453/

http://www.medievalists.net/2017/05/legend-constructs-french-national-identity-jeanne-darc/

http://www.medievalists.net/2017/06/career-roger-mortimer-first-earl-march-c-1287-1330/


Finally


This fortnight I tweeted pictures of Tickhill Castle

https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe



Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown –15 June 2017


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Ok-forgot to mention-I posted these on this forum somewhat regularly up thru no. 265, so if you are new to this newsletter and want to see more back issues, simply use the forum search feature with, say, "Basiliscoe."

 

It appears that all links are still current and live......................but my d@mned life keeps getting in the way, so I haven't been able to read everything as of this time...................................

 

LOVED the story on the little Dunkirk boat Anne, and her rescue & restoration!!!!!

SAVED your post!! WAAAY too many for me to click on in one morning!!! Very cool stuff though!!! Thanks Spring!!!!