The Basiliscoe Mercury 275

The Basiliscoe Mercury 275


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


Arms and armour in the news


We celebrate the summer with a variety of stories from around the world - from assorted Stone Age weapons, the investigation of graves from Ancient Greece to the Romanovs, forts and castles. Strange things people find include toe bones, a shot gun and a bouncing bomb! We finish off with the two course lunch offered this week at Café Basiliscoe - drinks included!


Ancient arms


Investigating Stone Age tools

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/s-toa072617.php


Recreating ancient weapons

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-re-creating-weapons-discoveries-human-history.html


Where did the copper in Ötzi the Iceman’s axe come from? https://www.sciencenews.org/article/copper-otzi-icemans-ax-came-surprisingly-far-away


Grave stories


Archaeologists in 2,500-year-old Greek cold case: Cylon's army? http://artdaily.com/news/97510/Archaeologists-go-high-tech-in-2-500-year-old-Greek-cold-case#.WWsPCzFK19A


The search for Genghis Khan’s tomb and why they’re not finding it

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170717-why-genghis-khans-tomb-cant-be-found


Romanovs

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/opinion/red-century-russia-romanov.html


Through the arrow-slit . . .


Not a Norman motte, but the “Sutton Hoo of Slough”

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-archaeologists-mound-slough-car-prestigious.html


Trebuchet building in France

http://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/.../La-forteresse-conserve-son-trebuchet-3170676


Chester castle re-opens

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40657606


Excavating at Tintagel

https://www.theguardian.com/science...ns-reveal-refined-tastes-of-medieval-settlers


Still not sorted out your summer hols yet? Ideas here….

http://royalcentral.co.uk/blogs/how-to-stay-at-a-british-castle-84876


Through the gunloop…


Tudor fortifications of Hull

http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news...idden-medieval-fortress-buried-beneath-215490


Exploring gun emplacements in Civil War Nottingham castle

https://nottstv.com/archaeologists-...red-nottingham-castle-17th-century-civil-war/


Archaeologists excavating FortMichilimackinacand their finds http://www.9and10news.com/story/359...are-artifacts-at-site-in-fort-michilimackinac


Manjarabad Fort, Mysore

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/life...ting-swords-clashed-for-a-slice-of-glory.html


Cannons to the left, cannon to the right


Buffalo’s memorial cannons and what happened to them - lots of photos

https://www.buffalorising.com/2017/07/where-did-all-the-cannons-go/


Feature about the Civil War napoleon cannon

http://www.scout.com/military/warrior/story/1792181-how-civil-war-cannon-tore-infantry-apart


Cannons in Malaya

https://www.nst.com.my/lifestyle/sunday-vibes/2017/07/260037/when-malay-cannons-boomed


Living in the past


Archery in Istanbul

https://www.theislamicmonthly.com/ottoman-archery-modern-day-istanbul/


Artillery demonstration at Antietam National Battlefield explains gore of battle

http://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news...cle_e72b837c-6ff3-11e7-b91d-3f321f7ca16b.html


Café Basiliscoe: on this week’s menu


Turtle from Israel…

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Humans-hunted-freshwater-turtles-in-Israel-60000-years-ago-500757


...or fish from Southampton

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-40635975


..washed down with a flagon of byzantine wine

http://www.timesofisrael.com/1600-y...have-quaffed-wine-from-this-desert-press/wash


...and finished off with a glass of Madeira…

http://www.npr.org/2017/07/14/537276241/new-jersey-museum-holds-a-stash-221-year-old-madeira-wine


Miscellany - mostly found objects this week!


Weird things you find in your garden - and how to make money from them!

http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/c...-for-auction/story-30440426-detail/story.html


Cannon ball in a Surrey yew tree

http://www.surreymirror.co.uk/the-o...ds-in-surrey/story-30448361-detail/story.html


18th century bayonet (and other military finds) found near LoonLake

http://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2017/07/french-indian-war-bayonet-discovered-near-loon-lake.html


Mortar shell found in Old Quebec from Battle of the Plains of Abrahamhttp://www.cbc.ca/1.4202559


19thcentury shotgun found in Blackfoot River, Montanahttp://helenair.com/news/state-and-...cle_cb4b818b-545f-56c5-929d-ad1a37c02871.html


Divers recover World War Two Highball bomb in Scottish loch

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-40662322/divers-recover-world-war-two-highball-bomb


Princesses and Amazons


Update on the search for Amelia Earhart

http://kuow.org/post/search-amelia-earhart-draws-archaeologist-eugene-south-pacific


Strong women in popular culture

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...ones-handmaids-tale-wonder-woman-female-power



World Heritage


Interesting article on looking at maps

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/where-see-some-worlds-oldest-maps-180963855/


Telangana drops guard on Hyderabad’s historic fortified wall http://www.deccanchronicle.com/nati...rd-on-hyderabads-historic-fortified-wall.html


19th century steel making sites in Sheffield discovered

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-40669159#


Earthquake damaged Kos sites and monuments, Archaeological Service reports

http://greece.greekreporter.com/201...and-monuments-archaeological-service-reports/


Captured bells and cannon from the Philippines

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/manila/local-news/2017/07/24/duterte-us-return-balangiga-bells-554668


Boom in trebuchets coming to Mexico soon?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...eval-siege-technology/?utm_term=.4371660584db


Nautical news


Dive Bermuda’s wrecks, virtually

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-...rmuda-shipwreck-digitally-recreated-by-divers


Investigating Port Royal

https://nottstv.com/nottingham-archaeologist-uncovers-secrets-sunken-pirate-city-jamaica/


18th century merchant ship found off St Augustine?

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/...-believed-to-be-1700s-merchant-ship/457432291


Update on the survey of HMS Erebus

http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stori...scales_back_franklin_wreck_survey_in_nunavut/



Museum news and exhibitions


News


Funding for the Imperial War Museum

http://www.museumsassociation.org/m...-5m-towards-new-imperial-war-museum-galleries


Visiting Cairo’s military museum

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsCon...Cairo-Discover-the-lives-of-Egypts-royal.aspx


Taiwan Museum makes images available

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-40594287


Museum musings


BBC looking for museum partners

http://www.museumsassociation.org/m...ts-museum-partners-for-civilisations-festival


No connection to Game of Thrones left unexplored...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...es-game-thrones-fans-exhibition-little-known/


Conservation corner


V&A X-ray their fashion collection

https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/x-raying-the-fashion-collection


Paris collections suffer in storms

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/lou...ces-damaged-after-torrential-rain-hits-paris/


New lives for old guns

http://www.bexhillobserver.net/news/making-art-out-of-historic-guns-1-8056705


Objects


Scottish history in 25 objects

http://www.scotsman.com/heritage/5-000-years-of-scottish-history-summed-up-in-25-objects-1-4508701


What Bonnie Prince Charlie left behind at Culloden

http://www.scotsman.com/news/the-object-bonnie-prince-charlie-left-when-he-fled-culloden-1-4503894


17th century armour sold

https://www.antiquestradegazette.co...-at-sothebys-thought-to-be-an-auction-record/


The weapons handed in to Plymouth police...

http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/the...mouth-police/story-30440772-detail/story.html


Exhibitions


Tudor monarchs in London

https://www.sal.org.uk/museum-collection/exhibitions/


Renaissance drawings in London

http://artdaily.com/news/97528/The-National-Portrait-Gallery-opens-its-first-exhibition-of-old-master-European-portrait-drawings#.WWxt9jFK19A


War Horse goes to Bethnal Green

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...michael-morpurgo-on-the-birth-of-a-war-horse-


Black PoWs of the Napoleonic Wars in Portchester

https://www.theguardian.com/culture...0-african-caribbean-pows-in-a-medieval-castle


Animals and War in Paris

http://www.musee-armee.fr/programmation/expositions/detail/animaux-guerres.html


John III Sobieski in Vienna

http://artdaily.com/news/97723/Exhibition-at-Prince-Eugene--146-s-Winter-Palace-focuses-on-Polish-king-John-III-Sobieski-#.WXhTvTFK19A



Books


Stefan Krause, Matthias Pfaffenbichler: Turnier; 1000 Jahre Ritterspielehttps://shop.khm.at/en/shop/detail/...1988-0&cHash=ab22cf3372c84de18289d459592383ac


Michael Jones; The Black Prince

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/07/the-black-prince-stained-by-evil-or-the-flower-of-chivalry/


Svetlana Alexievich: The Unwomanly Face of Warhttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2...exievich-monument-to-courage-soviet-women-war


Osprey’s latest listing

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


Online books


Ian Peirce & Ewart Oakeshott: Swords of the Viking Age

https://archive.org/details/SwordsOfTheVikingAgeByIanPeirceEwartOakeshott


Torsten Lenk &JF Hayward: The flintlock : its origin, development, and use

https://archive.org/details/Flintlock_The



Popular culture


Why isn’t there gunpowder in Westeros?

http://www.rstreet.org/op-ed/whats-stopping-technological-progress-in-game-of-thrones/


Tooling up your Lego figures

http://www.guns.com/2017/07/17/brickarms-brings-mini-weaponry-to-lego-buffs/


Land of Mine gets a wider release

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Mine


Dunkirk reaches our beaches

http://www.dunkirkmovie.com/


And the Dunkirk spirit in modern culture

https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...lm-brexit-national-identity-christopher-nolan


Using mud to remember Passchendaele

http://www.centenarynews.com/articl...algar-square-for-yprespasschendaele-centenary


Events


Diary Dates


Vienna

http://www.hgm.at/


Jousting in the UK

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/whats-on/knights-jousts-events/


Jousting in Denmark

https://www.middelaldercentret.dk/en

http://www.fortticonderoga.org/education/workshop-seminars/artillery


September, Germany

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


The Black Powder Ordnance: A conference on safe use

Hindlip Hall, 14 October 2017

Contact Roger Emmerson for details: emmersonrw@aol.com


Call for Papers for the sessions on the medieval horse at the International Medieval Congress 2018 at Leeds, 2-5 July 2018

http://www.medievalists.net/2017/07/call-papers-medieval-horse-imc-2018/



Websites and downloads


New display at Dresden

http://www.skd.museum/fileadmin/SKD/Bilder/Museen/Ruestkammer/Dateien/Macht___Mode_web.pdf


1066 etc: Chivalry & Cnut

http://www.medievalists.net/2017/07...lry-attempt-retake-ideals-christian-chivalry/

http://www.medievalists.net/2017/07/pilgrim-patron-cnut-post-conquest-historical-writing/


Finally


This fortnight I tweeted Percy tombs and castles, and 18th century ironworks

https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe



Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown – 2017


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