The Basiliscoe Mercury 277

The Basiliscoe Mercury 277


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


Arms and armour in the news


Life & death in medieval London and the discovery of Greenwich Palace cellars, fighting women, Updates on a number of wrecks- and – spoiler alert- the RAF didn’t murder Glenn Miller after all. A lot of discussion of the importance of monuments, a reminder of European Heritage Open Days and a number of interesting new books, as the evenings draw in. Finally a message from the Met…


Ancient arms and forts


Testing prehistoric weapons replicas

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart...y-feats-north-american-engineering-180964077/


Bronze-Age dagger found in Slovakia – pictures

https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20623030/young-man-finds-4000-year-old-dagger-by-accident.html


Bronze warrior and his weapons found near Sion, Switzerland

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blog...unearthed-during-car.html#S83U7R8QLVYH92L8.97


Latest research on the Terracotta Army

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/china-terra-cotta-army-clay


Gladiators’ arena in ancient Anatolia investigated

http://sabahdai.ly/B3kCgm


Round fort found in Denmark

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/1000-year-...ar-viking-fortress-discovered-denmark-1634131


Grave stories


Skulls from medieval London show a life (and death) of violence

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2145415-medieval-london-was-the-most-violent-place-in-england/


Searching for a Civil War grave

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/spec...rth-mystery-of-civil-war-soldiers-burial-spot


Through the arrow-slit . . .


York ponders lowering the portcullis

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15459002.Will_this_historic_York_portcullis_be_lowered_again_/


Remains of Greenwich palace found under Picture hall

https://www.ornc.org/News/major-archaeological-finds-at-greenwich-uncover-lost-royal-palace


Visiting the top of Windsor Castle

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2017/08/27/climbing-to-the-top-of-windsor-castles-round-tower/


Gate Discovered at Medieval Castle in Slovakia http://www.archaeology.org/news/5873-170825-slovakia-viniansky-castle


Pictures of forts and castles round the globe

http://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/abandoned-castles-worldwide/index.html


Through the gunloop…


Hull blockhouse to be investigated

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-41081664


At imperilled coastal forts, archaeologist tries to document the past: report http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2017/08/louisiana_archaeologist_docume.html


Dutch slave trade and fort in Tamil Nadu https://scroll.in/magazine/847865/s...tch-slave-trade-in-a-small-town-in-tamil-nadu


Cannons to the left, cannon to the right


North Carolina Williamston's Civil War cannon goes to museum

http://www.independentmail.com/stor...l-war-cannon-headed-citadel-museum/569431001/


Victorian cannon in Digby Nova Scotia defaced

http://www.digbycourier.ca/news/local/2017/8/23/historic-cannon-defaced-in-digby.html


Café Basiliscoe


Bronze-age wine….

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/summer-2017/article/world-s-oldest-italian-wine-just-discovered


…or recreated 17th century ships diet- beer and salted penguin

http://mentalfloss.com/article/503719/archaeologists-are-recreating-recipes-17th-century-ships


Miscellany


Fishing in medieval Iceland

http://www.medievalists.net/2017/08/character-commercial-fishing-icelandic-waters-fifteenth-century/


Remembering Enfield’s history

https://londonist.com/london/histor...e-rifles-muskets-and-swords-were-manufactured


Princesses and Amazons


V&A acquire Victoria’s coronet

http://museumcrush.org/va-acquires-...by-albert-as-a-love-token-for-queen-victoria/


Civil War fighters

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/22/donald-trump-transgender-military-ban-albert-cashier


Russian women in the WW1

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/23/...r-for-a-battalion-of-death.html?smid=tw-share


Into the 20th century


Surveying WW1 PoW camp in Jersey

https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2017/08/25/archaeologists-survey-pow-camp/


RAF cleared of killing Glenn Miller

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/29/glenn-miller-book-clears-raf-killing-band-leader


Nautical news


Update on the Vasa

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bizarre-story-vasa-ship-keeps-giving-180964328/


Update on the Dutch East Indiaman Rooswijk lost 1740 on Goodwin Sands http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-40962097

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/...century-dutch-treasure-ship-found-coast-kent/

https://www.theguardian.com/science...ientists-unravel-story-of-1740-kent-shipwreck


Investigating the slave ships lost off Senegal

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-secrets-deep-senegal-slave-shipwreck.html


Update on the Mentor, lost off Kythira, 1802

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/08/15/items-recovered-from-wreck-of-elgins-ship-off-Kythira/

Update of the Franklin expedition

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/franklin-ships-erebus-terror-underwater-archeology-1.4241633


Update on the Hunley

http://home.bt.com/news/science-new...rine-crew-died-has-been-solved-11364206456179


USS Indianapolis found

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...napolis/ar-AAql9Fy?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp


Three new shipwrecks recognized in English waters

http://www.divernet.com/home-diving-news/p320546-cannon-and-u-boat-sites-win-protection.html



Museum news and exhibitions


News


Houston Museums and galleries deal with the floods

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/museums-brace-for-full-impact-of-hurricane-harvey/


University Museum of Bergen has 400 Viking artefacts stolen

http://artdaily.com/news/98214/400-Viking-objects-stolen-in-Norway-museum-heist#.WZqR3jFK19A


Scotland Yard arts squad under threat

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/clo...s-art-and-antiques-unit-now-being-considered/


Museums in Europe discuss the future of the Benin bronzes

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/12/cambridge-benin-bronzes-loan-deal


New Museums


Partition Museum in India

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/india-remembers-trauma-and-art-of-partition/


Museum Musings


Why museum collections matter

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smith...sson-why-museum-collections-matter-180964365/


Do statues matter?

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/new...l-of-confederate-monuments-throughout-the-us/

http://artdaily.com/news/98198/Are-Confederate-monuments-important-works-of-art--#.WZlA5jFK19A

https://www.rt.com/news/400274-toppling-monuments-historic-incidents/


India’s WW1 monuments

http://punemirror.indiatimes.com/en...tle-of-wwi-memorials/articleshow/60123251.cms


Knoxville’s monuments

http://www.knoxmercury.com/2017/08/25/times-remorseless-doom-two-monuments-fort-sanders/


Conservation corner


Working at Rock Island Arsenal Museum in Rock Island, Illinois

http://www.carrollspaper.com/Conten...poses-Carroll-grad-to-historic-guns/1/1/25155


Objects


Robert the Bruce’s seal- or not

http://www.thenational.scot/news/15...ed_by_Robert_the_Bruce_which_may_be_replicas/


Paintings van Blarenberghe of American battles in Yorktown

http://artdaily.com/news/98427/Last...detailed-18th-century-paintings-#.WaUsGjFK19A


Art Detectives: Solving a mystery portrait and more

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...ved-unknown-soldier-was-painted-by-his-mother


Mountbatten’s pistol-pen

http://www.hindustantimes.com/punjab/wild-buzz-the-goral-godfather-and-the-pistol-http://www.musee-armee.fr/programmation/expositions/detail/animaux-guerres.html


300 year old MariaTheresa in Vienna

http://artdaily.com/news/96875/In-Her-Majesty-s-Hands--Medals-of-Maria-Theresa-on-view-at-the-Kunsthistorisches-Museum#.WZP7CTFK19A

http://artdaily.com/news/97724/Exhi...ia-Theresa-s-cultural-commitment#.WZf9UDFK19A


Books


Donald J. LaRocca: How to Read European Armor

http://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9781588396297/how-read-european-armor


Dan Jones: The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God’s Holy Warriors

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...se-spectacular-fall-gods-holy-warriors-review


Helen J. Nicholson:The Everyday Life of the Templars: The Knights Templar at Home

http://fonthillmedia.com/9781781553732


Elizabeth Cleland & Lorraine Karafel:Tapestries from the Burrell Collection

http://artdaily.com/news/98314/A-sp...apestry-collections-in-the-world#.WZ_UfDFK19A


Online Book


Wiley Library Online: War and Conflict Research articles

http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-830190.html


Popular Culture


Interview withCai Guo-Qiang

https://www.ft.com/content/c141c5a2-891d-11e7-8bb1-5ba57d47eff7


Trailer for new BBC drama on the Gunpowder Plot

http://www.nme.com/news/tv/watch-trailer-kit-haringtons-bbc-drama-gunpowder-2129989


Events


Diary Dates


Conferences


September, Germany

ICOMAM

https://icomam-germany2017.de/


14 October 2017Hindlip Hall

The Black Powder Ordnance: A conference on safe use

Contact Roger Emmerson for details: emmersonrw@aol.com


15-17 November 2017, Canterbury

Black Prince Conference

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


Sales Fairs and auctions


Preview for Hermann Historica

https://www.hermann-historica.de/AuctionData/1/_Sonstiges/flyer/A75/A75_Flyer_Netz.pdf


Websites and Downloads

1066 etc


Ladies on crusade, Clontarf, military surgeon’s & Anglo-Saxonbattles

http://www.medievalists.net/2017/08...nder-female-participation-crusades-1147-1254/

http://www.medievalists.net/2017/08...ireland-portrayed-cogadh-gaedhel-re-gallaibh/

http://www.medievalists.net/2017/08/military-surgical-practice-advent-gunpowder-weaponry/

http://www.medievalists.net/2017/08/english-nationalism-battle-maldon-battle-brunanburh/


Finally


Don’t forget heritage open days across Europe

https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/

http://www.europeanheritagedays.com/


A message from the Met


The Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed Metropolitan Museum Journal invites submissions of original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection. Starting with Volume 52 (2017), there will be two sections: Articles and Research Notes. Articles contribute extensive and thoroughly argued scholarship. Research Notestypically present a concise, neatly bounded aspect of ongoing investigation, such as the presentation of a new acquisition or attribution, or a specific, resonant finding from technical analysis. All texts must take works of art in the collection as the point of departure.


Articles and Research Notes in the Journal appear both in print and online, and are immediately accessible via MetPublications, JStor, and the website of the University of Chicago Press.


The deadline for submissions for Volume 53 (2018) is October 15, 2017.


Submission guidelines: www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/met/instruct


Please send materials to: journalsubmissions@metmuseum.org

Inspiration from the Collection:http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection

View the Journal:www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/met/2016/51/1

This fortnight I tweeted on the treasures of Armourers Hall

https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe



Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown – 2017


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I haven't read the article about "fighting women" yet but hopefully it addresses that phrase as a noun, not a verb, as in "how to."

 

Read that one and some others. Pretty interesting stuff. An all woman "Battalion of Death" in 1917, that's just awesome! I followed the link from that page for a more in depth story. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/women-warriors-russian-revolution-180963067/