Basiliscoe Mercury 212

The Basiliscoe Mercury 212
The Internet newsletter for the arms and armour community
Arms and armour in the news
Autumn brings in a sleugh of blockbuster exhibitions for all tastes - medieval manuscripts, Renaissance portraits, Japanese warriors and old Morocco, as well as modern art inspired by arms and armour. Also a number of underwater discoveries, testing the Vasa replica cannon and a lost portrait of Henri III found.
Ancient arms
Warrior's belt fittings found in Bulgarian fortress
http://www.novinite.com/articles/164228/Archaeologists+Unearth+Bronze+Belt+Of+Bulgar+Warrior
Iron Age chariot found in Leicestershire
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...emains-of-iron-age-celtic-chariot-at-hillfort
Viking age hoard found in Dumfriesshire
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...nd-biggest-of-modern-times-say-archaeologists
Battles, towers and forts
Details of the mosaic found in Greek mausoleum released
http://artdaily.com/news/73572/Gian...Amphipolis-in-northern-Macedonia#.VDuKWLAtCUk
Taking a tour of FortLewis
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/...the-crucible-of-war.html?sp=/99/296/331/&rh=1

Grave stories
Secrets of the gladiators - beans, barley and a dose of ashes
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141020090006.htm
Now examining the circumstances of Moctezuma’s death
http://artdaily.com/news/73759/In-M...hibit-rethinks-Moctezuma-s-death#.VES5BrAtCUk
In case you have been losing sleep about the exact route of Richard III funeral cortege
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...-as-leicester-cathedral-prepares-to-bury-body
Miscellany
City of the Golden Horde excavated
http://www.livescience.com/48433-city-ruled-by-genghis-khan-heirs.html
Written on birch wood - medieval messages from Novgorod
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/w...ian-history-grew-on-trees.html?ref=world&_r=3
New research on the origins of the Turin Shroud
http://www.historytoday.com/charles-freeman/origins-shroud-turin
On the Frontlines
Mortimers Cross to be registered?
http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/1...st_famous_battle_site_could_be_made_official/
15 soldiers who died 100 years ago reburied in France - a nice tribute to them
http://www.itv.com/news/2014-10-22/the-15-british-ww1-soldiers-being-reburied-100-years-on/
Cannons to the left, cannon to the right
Indian academics researching Indian cannon-making traditions
http://www.avenuemail.in/jamshedpur/session-archaeological-objects-nml/62123/
WW1 cannon found thawing in the Italian alps http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...war-italy-austro-hungarian-mountains-history/
Making a suitable home for the Wykoff cannon, Minnesota
http://www.bluffcountrynews.com/Con...morial-to-provide-lasting-legacy/-3/548/55611
Testing the replica Vasa cannon
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/32981
Into the 20th century
French soldier’s room untouched since his death in WWI
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/14/french-soldier-room-unchanged-first-world-war
Looks like all is not fine in Glock-World
http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2014/oct/13/guns-money-misery-gaston-glock-lawsuit
Café Basiliscoe
Brewing up a very old beer http://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...ntists-recreate-150-year-old-shipwrecked-beer
And smell 150 years old while you drink it
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1000263-mary-celestia-the-story-of-a-shipwrecked-fragrance/
Nautical news
Vietnam wants to make more of its shipwreck heritage
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/ar...ound-in-binh-chau-waters--archaeologists.html
Another week, another search for another Columbus wreck
http://www.pal-item.com/story/news/...essor-uncovering-mysteries-columbus/17177135/
Brief report on late 16th century Spanish wreck Zakynthos in Greecehttp://greece.greekreporter.com/2014/10/20/underwater-exploration-of-spanish-shipwreck-in-zakynthos/
http://gr.euronews.com/2014/10/20/u...shipwreck-from-the-16th-century-in-zakynthos/
17th century Dutch ship discovered off Tobago
http://www.g-eos.org/2012/02/2012-marine-archaeological-expedition.html
http://today.uconn.edu/blog/2014/10/uconn-archaeologist-discovers-17th-century-shipwreck/
La Salle’s La Belle is re-assembled for display in the Bullock Texas State History Museum http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/li...remains-famed-shipwreck-lost-off-texas-coast/
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-french-ship-reassembled-texas.html
HMS Hazardous at risk
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...lish-heritages-2014-at-risk-list-9811691.html
Archaeologists raise another cannon from Queen Ann’s Revenge, lost 1718
http://www.carolinacoastonline.com/article_820c3c1e-5c89-11e4-acbd-73ee77a14774.html
British government allows removal of artefacts from HMS Victory, lost 1744
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-29756672
More on the search for Endeavour
http://www.saratogian.com/20141014/...-ship-might-be-capt-james-cooks-hmb-endeavour
Investigating cannon wreck off Northumberland
http://www.thejournal.co.uk/north-e.../archaeology-probe-cannons-ship-wreck-7989650
HMS Caroline’s future secured as floating museum in Belfast
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/n...nsformed-into-a-floating-museum-30666311.html
Long piece about the Lusitania and its fascination for divers
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/b...tom-of-the-lusitania-sinking-1.1970236?page=3
This week’s lost U-boat (and victim) found off the coast of North Carolina
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/wwii-ship...-u-boat-discovered-off-213758411.html#8meAZBZ
http://www.livescience.com/48392-ww...cecom+(LiveScience.com+Science+Headline+Feed)
raise the UK’s last surviving World War II Landing Craft,raise the UK’s last surviving World War II Landing Craft,Raising the UK’s last WWII landing craft - pictures!
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...g-world-war-two-landing-craft-ends-in-success
World War II P-40K Warhawk fighter found in Papahānaumokuākea, Hawaii
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/world-war-ii-era-fighter-plane-discovered-at-midway-atoll/123
Museum news and exhibitions
News
Piece on the Vietnam Museum of Weapons - many photos
http://baodongnai.com.vn/english/photo-news/201410/the-vietnam-museum-of-weapons-2346854/
New museums
Witch find at new National Civil War Centre
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...h-century-witch-hunts-found-by-archaeologists
Last survivor from Gallipoli to go on show at Portsmouth
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...aign-to-be-first-boardable-world-war-one-ship
Museum developments
British Library and its portal into Arab history and culture
http://artdaily.com/news/73837/Brit...studies-and-new-research-on-Gulf#.VEpVTbAtCUl
Museum musings
Museums in the war zone
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/10/treasure-trails-how-museums-became-diplomatic-fixers
Conservation corner
Researching the Staffordshire Hoard
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/...rd-anglo-saxon-gold-secret-technique-treasure
Tullio’s Adam at the Met restored and on show
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Tullios-Adam-returns-to-view-at-the-Met/36045
Scanning lay figures for exhibition in Cambridge
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/12/artists-mannequins-cambridge-exhibition-mri-scan
Update on the Dornier conservation
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...s-last-remaining-world-war-two-dornier-bomber
Objects
Investigating early medieval Ulfberht swords: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/ulfberht-klingen-ein-schwert-fuer-europa-1.2188338
Pair of 17th century Brescian pistols in Bonham's November sale
http://artdaily.com/news/73774/Roth...-during-WWII-for-sale-at-Bonhams#.VEpWhLAtCUl
Portrait of Henri III of France lost in WW2 rediscovered
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/arti...king-taken-from-Louvre-found-at-auction/36023
Artefacts from Zhongshan warship on show in Singapore
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20141020000021&cid=1104
Exhibitions
History of Germany in London
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_....0&utm_referrer=http://www.britishmuseum.org/
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/oct/13/bygone-germany-british-museum-exhibition
Moroni in London - definitely one for my next London expedition
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/giovanni-battista-moroni
http://www.theguardian.com/artandde...moroni-royal-academy-tailors-favourite-artist
Late Rembrandt in London
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/12/rembrandt-national-gallery-late-works-london
http://artdaily.com/news/73628/Exhi...brandt-s-final-years-of-painting#.VD4sgLAtCUk
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/w...e-late-works?gclid=CLCzg-LKx8ECFa7KtAodaBoAqg
Rowlandson cartoons in Bath
http://www.holburne.org/high-spirits-2/
Art and war in Manchester
http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/art...y-draws-on-five-senses-to-bring-home-conflict
Medieval Morocco in Paris
http://www.louvre.fr/en/expositions/medieval-morocco-empire-africa-spain
Memory & WWI in Paris (two exhibitions)
http://actualites.musee-armee.fr/ex...ille-lexposition-sous-le-signe-de-la-memoire/
http://www.musee-armee.fr/ExpoVudufront/
Fur in Copenhagen
http://natmus.dk/nationalmuseet/udstillinger/saerudstillinger/pels/
Hans Memling in Rome
http://artdaily.com/news/73600/-Han...e-Scuderie-del-Quirinale-in-Rome#.VDzVorAtCUk
http://english.scuderiequirinale.it/categorie/memling-e-l-italia-exhibition
Velazquez in Vienna
http://www.khm.at/besuchen/ausstellungen/velazquez/
Goya in Boston
http://artdaily.com/news/73563/Goya...-drawings-from-around-the-world-#.VDuJ7LAtCUk
Crusader Bible in NY - looks another stunner!
http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/Crusader-Bible
http://artdaily.com/news/73688/The-...-manuscripts--The-Crusader-Bible#.VEIg0LAtCUk
Chinese treasures in Richmond, VA
http://artdaily.com/news/73736/-For...seum--Beijing--opens-in-Richmond#.VES4HLAtCUk
http://vmfa.museum/exhibitions/forbidden-city/
Dutch paintings in North Carolina
http://www.ncartmuseum.org/
http://artdaily.com/news/73538/Firs...ch-and-Flemish-Golden-Age-opens#.VDp9irAtCUk#
Byzantine art in Chicago
http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/15/byzantine-art-exhibition-now-open-chicago/
Firearms on the Texas border at The Alamo
http://www.thealamo.org/education/upcoming-exhibits.html
http://www.ksat.com/content/pns/ksa...earms-exhibit-to-open-at-alamo-wednesday.html
Samurai armour in LACMA
http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition...r-collection?gclid=COXSsZ7Fu8ECFabLtAodhx0AhA
Samurai: Japanese Armor from the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller CollectionSamurai: Japanese Armor from the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection
Rubens in LA
http://artdaily.com/news/73608/Exhi...-Rubens-s-greatest-achievements-#.VD4sqrAtCUk
Selection of Alexander Roslin’s portraits going from Sweden to Amsterdam
http://artdaily.com/news/73706/Nati...in-works-to-Rijksmuseum-Twenthe-#.VEIh3rAtCUk
Intriguing premise for an exhibition, linking armour, defence, magic and modern art!
http://artdaily.com/news/73695/-Art...ment--opens-at-Tacoma-Art-Museum#.VEIiZ7AtCUk
Books
David R Cook: Black Prince
http://www.scalapublishers.com/title.aspx?category=new-titles&subcategory=&id=3758
Helen Castor introduces her new book on Joan of Arc http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/17/joan-arc-feminist-icon-uncomfortable-fit
The Salisbury Museum: Illustrated
http://www.scalapublishers.com/title.aspx?category=&subcategory=&id=3778
Andrew Roberts: Napoleon the Great
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Napoleon-Great-Andrew-Roberts/dp/1846140277
Alan Gilliland and Johnny Shumate: The M14 Battle Rifle
http://www.ospreypublishing.com/store/The-M14-Battle-Rifle_9781472802552
Online book
The Engineer (and other similar sources available here)
http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Main_Page
Popular culture
War Artist Arabella Dorman to display the work from her time in Afghanistan
http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ears-afghanistan-tell-story-got-to-take-risks
Bovington Tank museum gets leading role in the publicity for Fury
http://www.theguardian.com/film/201...mething-maternal-about-tank-in-fury-brad-pitt
Battles and Books 1
http://www.theguardian.com/books/20...wars-1793-1815-jane-austen-byron-walter-scott
Battles and Books 2
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/25/war-of-words-powerful-portraits-battlefield
Events
Diary Dates
HBSA calendar
https://sites.google.com/site/hbsauk/HBSA-calendar
19 November 2014, flint knapping in Manchester
http://estore.manchester.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=2&catid=379
Conferences: Calls for Papers
26 -27 February 2015 Horniman Museum, London
Weapons and the AnthropologyMuseum
http://www.horniman.ac.uk/visit/events/weapons-and-the-anthropology-museum
27-30 May 2015 Leiden University (Netherlands
Metalwork use-wear analysis: The loss of innocence
http://archaeology.leiden.edu/awrana/
3- 6June 2015
ARCHAEOMETALLURGY IN EUROPE IV.
http://www.congresos.cchs.csic.es/aie4/conference
Sales, fairs and auctions
27 Oct 2014 New York,
Arts of the Samurai
http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22248/
3–8 November and 8-13December 2014
Catalogues have gone online
http://www.hermann-historica.de/db2_en/
5 Nov 2014 Edinburgh
The Sporting Sale
http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/21880/
10 Nov 2014 San Francisco
Fine Antique Arms from the Estate of Joseph A. Murphy
http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/21653/
11 Nov 2014 San Francisco
Antique Arms & Armour and Modern Sporting Guns
http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22113/
26 Nov 2014 London, Knightsbridge
Antique Arms and Armour
http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/21639/
Websites and downloads
National MuseumZurich
http://www.nationalmuseum.ch/e/zuerich/
Nice piece on bronze Portuguese swivel gun
http://www1.museo.depo.es/imagenesarticulos/falconetes/Artilleria_ Bronce_ Museo_ Pontevedra.pdf
1066 etc: Morte d’Arthur, spooky books
http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10...on-development-medieval-chivalric-literature/
http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/23/10-terrifying-reads-halloween/
Finally pour a glass of port, put a log on the fire and draw up your i-pad while the winds howl outside the stone mullions…
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8486
This fortnight on twitter - an awful lot of battles by land and sea https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe
Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown – 2014
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