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    The Basiliscoe Mercury 280


    TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


    A number of tournament-related stories, as well as ancient diets, falcons, forts and cannons in India, lots of underwater discoveries and the autumn season exhibitions are now in full swing.


    Arms and armour in the news


    Ancient arms and forts


    Bronze Age weapons found in glacier in Switzerland

    https://www.thelocal.ch/20171004/bronze-age-equipment-found-on-swiss-mountain-pass


    Roman fort in Bulgaria investigated

    http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/20...ulgaria-survived-treasure-hunters-bulldozers/


    Thoughts on Viking camps

    https://www.livescience.com/60553-viking-fort-reveals-elaborate-military-network.html


    Beasts of assorted varieties…


    Ancient animals in African art

    http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsCon...ll-markings-of-wild-animals-uncovered-in.aspx


    Training falcons

    http://uk.businessinsider.com/falco...val-times-animal-bird-peregrine-sports-2017-9


    Grave stories


    The mystery of Germany’s Rwandan skulls

    http://artdaily.com/news/99317/Germany-to-probe-origins-of-colonial-era-Rwandan-skulls#.Wdd-UDFe59A


    Beheaded Lord Lovat’s skeleton examined

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-41483134

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...cobite-clan-chief-exhumed-solve-270-year-old/


    Investigating an Aboriginal massacre in Australia

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-...y-seeks-truth-of-aboriginal-massacres/9001770



    In the lists


    Crests on tournament helms

    http://www.medievalists.net/2017/10/topping-off-tournament/


    Jousting for boys

    http://www.medievalists.net/2017/10/boys-joust-wanna-fun/


    Through the arrow-slit . . .


    Investigating Grognon citadel, Belgium

    https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blog...citadel-and-medieval.html#4yuubk8gh9D51qdr.97


    Norman castle in Bari re-opens

    http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lif...ens_b19166b5-fb63-4425-ae06-e836350c4605.html


    Short article about Edinburgh’s Flodden wall

    http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-flodden-wall


    Shoreham fort damaged by vandals

    http://www.shorehamherald.co.uk/new...ht-to-keep-shoreham-fort-crime-free-1-8192597


    Cannons to the left, cannon to the right


    Brookline’s WWI cannon, damaged in a bus accident, returned thttps://patch.com/pennsylvania/dorm...cannon-damaged-bus-accident-returns-brookline


    Conserving the Alamo’s cannon collection

    http://wtaw.com/2017/10/06/restoration-alamo-cannons-begin-rellis-campus/


    Old cannons on Western Esplanade, Southampton, about 1904 http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/155...ble_spa_destination__yes__really__/#gallery11


    Asian forts round-up


    Art of the Great Wall of China explored archaeologically

    http://www.business-standard.com/ar...-walls-excavated-in-china-117101400314_1.html


    Passage to India: a visit to Murshidabad, West Bengal https://www.thenational.ae/lifestyl...a-a-visit-to-murshidabad-west-bengal-1.663941


    16th century Portuguese fort in Goa

    https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...of-the-mandovi-zuari/articleshow/60898760.cms


    Hyderabad: General Raymond's Tomb being disrespected https://telanganatoday.com/raymonds-tomb-turns-den-anti-social-activities


    Back to the front


    Investigating the battle of Wood Lake

    https://www.archaeology.org/news/5952-170928-minnesota-dakota-war


    Finds from the Alamo go on show

    http://www.expressnews.com/sa300/article/


    Archaeologists find more than they were expecting at Salisbury plain …

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...of-1930s-sports-car-buried-on-salisbury-plain


    Living in the past


    Stonehenge diet

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...e-neolithic-man-sweet-pork-rich-cheese-feasts


    What the army in Roman Wales ate

    https://phys.org/news/2017-10-invading-army-thousands-miles-home.html


    Living the Viking life

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/viking_club_where_men_fight_their_demons


    Miscellany


    Gold bayleaf from Napoleon's crown to be sold

    http://artdaily.com/news/99439/Gold-leaf-from-Napoleon-s-crown-to-go-under-hammer#.Wd8j8TFe59A


    Queen Victoria’s costume ball

    http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017...me-ball-to-help-the-spitalfields-silk-makers/


    Why we like fireworks

    http://indianexpress.com/article/research/between-the-flash-and-the-bang-trying-to-decode-why-humans-are-awed-by-fihttp://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/history/the-explosive-origins-of-the-nobel-prizes.aspx


    Australian school children find pair of 100 year old guns in cave

    https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/expl...ely-owned-by-price-of-hyderabad-ng-b88614509z


    Nautical news- including paintings this week, too!


    Update from the Antikythera wreck

    https://www.theguardian.com/science...ures-and-hints-of-priceless-classical-statues


    Update on the search for Columbus’ ships- spoiler- nothing to report…

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/10/columbus-nina-pinta-santa-maria-shipwreck-archaeology/


    Sweden’s Mars in 3D

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...truction-shipwreck-baltic-sweden-archaeology/


    Update on Ireland Sligo’s armada site’s future

    http://sligoweekender.ie/2015/06/18/armada-cannons-recovered-from-streedagh/


    Elizabeth I Armada portrait back on view after conservation

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...-spanish-armada-london-queens-house-greenwich

    http://artdaily.com/news/99510/Armada-Portrait-returns-to-Greenwich-after-conservation#.WeMsXjFe59A


    Nice 1620 seascape bought by Frans Hals Museum

    http://artdaily.com/news/99305/Fran...xceptional-work-by-Jan-Porcellis#.Wdd9DjFe59A


    Update on the beeswax wreck – Spanish galleon off Oregon

    http://www.columbian.com/news/2017/sep/24/shipwreck-searchers-look-for-signs-of-spanish-galleon/


    WWI U-boatfound off Belgium

    https://www.deeperblue.com/wwi-u-boat-found-off-coast-belgium/


    HMS Pheasant, lost off Orkney in 1917, identified

    https://www.archaeology.org/news/5943-170925-orkney-hms-pheasant


    First naval casualty of WW2 found?

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-41503664


    HMS Narwhal located?

    http://seawaves.com/2017/10/04/wreck-of-ww2-submarine-narwhal-found-after-77-years/


    Macumba shipwreck sunk in Japanese air raid found in Arafura Sea

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-05/macumba-shipwreck-found-off-arnhem-landhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...nd-sinking-of-falklands-warship-hms-sheffield



    Museum news and exhibitions


    News


    Problems with Robben Island as a visitor attraction

    https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-10-05-dire-straits-robben-island-museum-operators-determhttp://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/puerto-rico's-museums-on-the-mend


    UK contemplates ban on ivory trade

    http://theartnewspaper.com/news/uk-could-completely-ban-ivory-trade-by-2018


    Sword boy gets private tour of FitzWilliam gallery!

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-41443601


    A visit to Government Archaeology Museum in Madikeri, India

    http://www.deccanherald.com/content/635869/an-ode-local-heritage.html



    New museums


    Freer and Sackler galleries re-open in DC

    http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news...r-gallery-reopen-after-dollar13.6m-renovation


    New gallery on the history of the Ashmolean in Oxford

    http://artdaily.com/news/99255/The-...-the-world-s-first-public-museum#.WdeAfTFe59A


    Sutton Hoo to be redeveloped

    http://www.medievalists.net/2017/10/sutton-hoo-transformed/


    Museum musings


    This week in statues

    http://www.theartnewspapehttp://artdaily.com/news/99446/National-Heritage-Centre-for-Horseracing---Sportinhttps://www.bonhams.cohttp://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-03/antique-revolver-handed-into-tasmania-police/9008900

    http:/http://artdaily.com/news/99280/Science-Museum-season-celebrates-global-impact-of-India-s-scientihttps://www.theguardian.com/artandd...orld-war-one-revealed-in-new-photo-exhibition


    Goya’s Disasters of War in Dublin

    http://artdaily.com/news/99392/Ches...isco-Goya-s-The-Disasters-of-War#.WdyKPzFe59A


    Francis I & his court in Paris

    http://www.louvre.fr/en/expositions/francois-i-and-dutch-art

    https://www.boutiquesdemusees.fr/fr...-du-nord-a-la-cour-de-francois-ier/12827.html


    Rubens portraits in Paris

    http://www.grandpalais.fr/fr/evenement/rubens-portraits-princiers


    14th century Flemish art in Amsterdam

    http://artdaily.com/news/99310/Rijksmuseum-stages-first-show-of-Johan-Maelwael#.Wdd9vzFe59A


    Dutch paintings from the hermitage in Amsterdam

    http://artdaily.com/news/99272/63-D...ition-at-the-Hermitage-Amsterdam#.WdiSpjFe59A


    Raphael in Vienna

    http://artdaily.com/news/99221/Majo...wings-by-Raphael-opens-in-Vienna#.WdHzjjFe59A


    Caravaggio in Milan

    http://artdaily.com/news/99187/Technology-sheds-new-light-on-master-of-shade#.WdCmAzFe59A


    Vietnam War in NY

    http://artdaily.com/news/99249/New-...n-the-history-of-the-Vietnam-War#.WdeA7TFe59A


    Chinese bells in Washington

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smit...lls-tells-story-ancient-innovation-180964459/


    Early Netherlandish drawing in Washington

    http://artdaily.com/news/99338/Rare...eiled-at-National-Gallery-of-Art#.WdiTCjFe59A


    Fragonard in DC

    http://artdaily.com/news/99371/Jean...res-and-newly-discovered-drawing#.WdswMTFe59A


    Bellini in LA

    http://artdaily.com/news/99388/Exhi...nters-of-the-Italian-Renaissance#.WdyJJTFe59A


    Landscape in medieval MS in LA

    http://artdaily.com/news/99389/J--P...ture-in-Renaissance-Manuscripts-#.WdyJzzFe59A


    Books


    Jonathan Ferguson: The ‘Broomhandle’ Mauser

    https://ospreypublishing.com/store/...s/available-this-month/the-broomhandle-mauser


    Jason Edwards: Turner and the Whale

    https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/turner-and-the-whale-9781784422851/


    What seems like a whole shelf worth of new publications from the Royal Armouries

    https://shop.royalarmouries.org/books-and-dvds/royal-armouries-publicatihttp://research.historicengland.org.uk/Report.aspx?i=15654



    Popular culture


    Princess Bride 30 years on

    https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment...eamed-battle-scar-extreme-fans-142940090.html


    Just in case you were wondering…

    https://www.inverse.com/article/37398-star-wars-the-last-jedi-lightsabers-rey-luke


    Events


    Diary Dates


    Events in the IWM

    http://www.iwm.org.uk/


    Conferences


    15-17 November 2017, Canterbury

    Black Prince Conference

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


    Sales, fairs and auctions


    Catalogue for Hermann Historica now online

    https://www.hermann-historica.de/en/Auktionen/Laufende


    25 Oct 2017 Edinburgh

    The Sporting Sale

    http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24090/


    Websites and downloads


    The national Swedish Museums of Military History

    http://www.sfhm.se/english/


    1066 etc


    King Arthur,tournaments & deer

    http://www.medievalists.net/2017/10/chretien-de-troyes-arthurian-romance-development-tournament/

    http://www.medievalists.net/2017/10...ormal-combats-england-france-circa-1380-1440/

    http://www.medievalists.net/2017/10...mics-fallow-deer-management-medieval-england/


    Finally

    Don’t forget we are gathering material for the next ICOMAM MAGAZINE!

    http://network.icom.museum/icomam/publications/the-magazine/


    This fortnight I tweeted on medieval Herefordshire

    https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe



    Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown –16 October 2017


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