The Basiliscoe Mercury 206

The Basiliscoe Mercury 206
TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community
Arms and armour in the news
With the imminent arrival of the Edinburgh Festival and the Glorious Twelfth, we have a good sprinkling of Scottish and hunting stories. Otherwise the usual mish-mash of mammoths, trebuchets, submarines and tournaments. Oh, and Barbie goes Games-of-Throning, in her new armour.
Obituary for William 'Bill' Reid
http://us6.campaign-archive2.com/?u=5557bc147d34993782f185bde&id=4bd35b67ff&e=05fc5d4d24
Ancient arms and forts
Feature on the Gallic chariot recently discovered in the Ardennes
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2014/elite-gallic-chariot-burial-revealed
Catch up on excavations at Binchester Roman Fort
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/06052014/article/pompeii-of-the-north-revealed-by-archaeologists
Project to bring together all the evidence on Viking burials in Dublin nears completion
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/the-vikings-beneath-modern-dublin-1.1867504
Update on the Royston cave - Edward III, retired curator and the Templars all feature…
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/News/Link-to-King-Edward-III-paves-way-for-solving-mystery-behind-Royston-Cave-20140719060619.htm
http://www.royston-crow.co.uk/news/new_evidence_could_date_historic_royston_cave_to_the_mid_14th_century_1_3699235
Hunting round the world and through the ages

Ritual mammoth tusks in Mexico
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=71563
Bear claw found in Peruvian tomb - weapon or ritual costume?
http://www.nbcnews.com/#/science/science-news/1-500-year-old-claws-intrigue-archaeologists-peru-n154151
Edinburgh’s whale bone arch goes for some tlc
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/historic-buildings/art492036-19th-century-whale-jawbones-leave-Edinburgh-Meadows-vital-repair-them-begins
Hope you saved up enough for that "huntin’,fishin’ and shootin’" break
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/25/luxury-hunting-fishing-high-price-deer-salmon
If not, just stay home and read H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald instead
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/23/h-is-for-hawk-helen-macdonald-review
Grave stories
13000 year old victims of violence in Egypt go on show
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jul/14/13000-year-old-skeletons-war-dead-british-museum
Boudicca’s victims found in Colchester
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art490654-Hacked-Roman-legs-jawbones-brutal-Boudiccan-battles-archaeologists
Re-creating the inhabitants of an Edinburgh graveyard
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art492359-Eerie-reconstructions-show-faces-diets-medieval-men-women-Edinburgh-graveyard
If this is your favourite section, you might like to know this is just out in paperback - perfect summer reading!
Nigel McCrery: Silent Witnesses
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silent-Witnesses-Nigel-McCrery/dp/0099569248/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406372714&sr=1-1&keywords=silent+witnesses+nigel+mccrery
On the Frontlines
Plan for Northampton’s battlefield
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-28161326
Update on the investigations round Lake George battle site
http://www.troyrecord.com/science/20140719/archaeologists-excavate-colonial-battleground-in-lake-george
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/excavating-last-mohicans-site-180952141/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=07232014&utm_content=smartnewsmohicansbattlefield2
Finding FortHarrell?
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2014-07-10/news/fort-harrell-everglades-discovery/
Cannons to the left, cannon to the right
The latest in Lasse Mattila's trebuchet experiments on impact and ranges https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyOcYrHosV8&app=desktop
Two cannon redisplayed in North Shield’s Clifford’s Fort - picture
http://www.thenetnorthshields.co.uk/return-of-historic-cannons-marks-the-start-of-old-low-light-refurbishment/
Miscellany
Scraps of medieval linen found in Northampton
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-28245779
Victorian boxing club investigated in York dig
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/11341457.Boxing_club_recorded_during_dig/?ref=rss
Into the 20th century
Surveying WWI training trenches in Norfolk
http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/news/local/latest-local-news/mystery-unravels-at-first-world-war-practice-trenches-in-bircham-newton-1-6186614
Fascinating piece about Bashford Dean and helmet design in the First World War
http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/now-at-the-met/2014/bashford-dean-and-helmet-design-during-world-war-i#
Today
Ukraine’s museums back in the frontline
http://artdaily.com/news/71490/Ukraine-rebels-go-to-the-museum--To-steal-World-War-II-tanks-and-two-howitzers
Iraq’s culture under fire
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Islamic-militants-destroy-Muslim-shrine-in-Mosul/33336
Nautical news
Ancient naval ram discovered and identified in this illustrated article
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/06052014/article/ancient-naval-ram-found-in-phanagoria-reveals-history-of-popular-unrest-in-63-b-c
Update on work on HMS London, lost 1665
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-28466331
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jul/25/shipwreck-excavation-17th-century-london-southend
Conserving the keel of La Belle
http://artdaily.com/news/71603/La-Belle-artifacts-rolling-into-Austin--Arrival-of-325-year-old-keel-the-start-of-famed-ship-s-final-journey
http://www.thebatt.com/news/view.php/788537/17th-century-ship-wreckage-travels-from-
Remembering (and re-creating) dazzle campaign for camouflaged ships
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jul/14/dazzle-ships-recreated-first-world-war-centenary
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Exploring U-boat U-166 sunk off the coast of Texas (rather eerie!) http://www.khou.com/news/local/Shipwrecks-in-Gulf-are-ghostly-reminders-of-Nazis-off-Texas-coast-267105671.html
Sherman tank raised from ship lost in the Barents Sea
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2705705/WWII-tank-salvaged-wreck-U-S-Arctic-convoy-ship-torpedoed-German-U-Boat-dying-days-war.html
Museum news and exhibitions
News
The Met is looking for a new arms and armor curator
http://www.artcurators.org/networking/apply_now.aspx?view=2&id=211049
And its visitor figures stay healthy
http://artdaily.com/news/71772/For-the-third-year-in-a-row--Metropolitan-Museum-announces-more-than-6-million-annual-attendance
NaturalHistoryMuseum get a royal scoop
http://artdaily.com/news/71725/Prince-George-poses-for-birthday-photo-at-Natural-History-Museum--London
The future of Italy’s museums
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Italian-culture-minister-pledges-to-give-museums-more-autonomy/33331
And summer reading:A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in 19th-Century Britain by James Hamilton
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/25/strange-business-art-money-nineteenth-century-britain
New museums
Tour of Leicester’s new Richard III centre
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/22/richard-iii-visitor-centre-leicester
Feature about the IWM’s new displays in London, opening this month http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/art490802-Every-object-tells-a-story-Imperial-War-Museums-new-atrium-promises-new-creative-displays
http://artdaily.com/news/71538/Imperial-War-Museum-London-opens-new--permanent-First-World-War-Galleries
Princenhof in Delft re-opens
http://artdaily.com/news/71642/Museum-Prinsenhof-Delft--located-in-a-15th-century-former-monastery--reopens-to-the-public
Tito’s yacht to become new museum
http://www.ansa.it/ansamed/en/news/sections/tourism/2014/07/16/bars-and-restaurants-to-open-on-titos-legendary-yacht_37d8886b-0ad2-4315-8b10-3b23587883ba.html
Museum developments
IWM’s new interactive WWI galleries
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/first-world-war/art491130-Imperial-War-Museum-re-opens-with-astonishing-interactive-First-World-War-Gallery
Apps for visiting north France
http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/travel/where-history-comes-alive-two-new-apps-for-a-historical-journey-of-northern-france-9619480.html
Film about the Hermitage
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Hermitage-film-chronicles-great-museums-turbulent-history/33327
Looking for lost stories and mementos of WWI around Europe
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/first-world-war/art492343-Europeana-project-aims-forgotten-World-family-histories
York’s Episcopal registers to be digitalized
http://artdaily.com/news/71771/York-awarded-Mellon-funding-for-digitisation-of-Archbishops--Registers
Museum musings
Wide-ranging piece about art forgeries
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2014/07/art/beyond-the-relic-cult-of-art
Conservation corner
US museums provide practical training and advice for Syrian museums
http://artdaily.com/news/71546/United-States-museums-provide-emergency-support-for-Syrian-museum-collections
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/US-museums-provide-emergency-support-for-Syria/33309
Gothic Hall of the Santi Quattro Coronati convent restored
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Romes-most-profane-Medieval-frescoes-unveiled/33256
Objects
Viking Sword connected to Hastings and Bannockburn comes up for sale - too much history!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-28271904
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2689177/Is-England-s-unluckiest-sword-Viking-broadsword-losing-four-history-s-greatest-battles-just-120-000.html
Story of an Aztec shield
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2014/an-aztec-shield-gifted-to-a-conquistador
Horse pendant and WWI medal from Essex
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art491646-Festival-Archaeology-2014-Katie-Marsden-picks-medieval-pendant-World-War-medal
Always worth checking through your kilt - you never know what you will find
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-28470902
WWI undercoat in Brighton - interesting but sad story
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/first-world-war/art490783-An-undercoat-worn-a-First-World-War-soldier-Brighton-Museum
Laws on ownership of antique guns tightened
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk/tougher-antique-gun-laws-in-force-1.469416
Exhibitions
Round-up of UK’s First World War exhibitions this summer
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/first-world-war/art492090-The-best-exhibitions-and-events-to-see-for-the-First-World-War-Centenary-in-2014
Buses go to war in London
http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/first-world-war/art489033-Goodbye%20Piccadilly-the-buses-that-went-to-war-at-London-Transport-Museum
Royal children in London
http://artdaily.com/news/71773/A-new-exhibition-at-Buckingham-Palace-brings-together-nine-generations-of-royal-children
http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/exhibitions/royal-childhood
Protests at the V&A
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/work-and-daily-life/political-history/art492493-Berlin-Palestinian-uprisings-Putin-protests-Disobedient-Objects
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/disobedient-objects/
Henry VIII’s armour in Kent
http://www.kentnews.co.uk/news/henry_viii_s_armour_returns_to_leeds_castle_1_3697485
http://www.leeds-castle.com/What%92s+On
WWI stories at Brighton
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/first-world-war/art490906
Policing in Ireland
http://www.museum.ie/en/exhibition/preserving-the-peace.aspx
Summer 1914 in Paris
http://artdaily.com/news/71584/-Summer-of-1914--The-Last-Days-of-the-Old-World--opens-at-the-Biblioth-egrave-que-nationale-
King Wilhelm in Stuttgart
http://artdaily.com/news/71573/Exhibition-marks-the-150th-anniversary-of-the-death-of-King-Wilhelm-I-of-W-rttemberg-
http://www.staatsgalerie.de/ausstellung/koenigliche_sammellust/
Magna Carta and WWI posters in Boston
http://artdaily.com/news/71526/Over-There--Exhibition-of-posters-from-WWI-opens-at-the-Museum-of-Fine-Arts--Boston
http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions
Books
A.J. Carson (Ed.), J. Ashdown-Hill, D. Johnson, W. Johnson & P.J. Langley: Finding Richard III: The Official Account of Research by the Retrieval and Reburial Project
http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/15/finding-richard-iii-official-account/
De Nimègue à Java: Les soldats suisses au service de la Hollande
XVIIe - XXe siècles
http://www.musees.vd.ch/fr/no_cache/chateau-morges/expositions/actualites/actualites-detail/article/nouvelle-publication/
http://www.musees.vd.ch/fileadmin/groups/14/images/expositions/Catalogue_CH_Serv_Hollande_Bon_comm.pdf
Critical Military Studies - Call for Papers
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/pgas/rcms-cfp
Latest titles from Osprey
http://www.ospreypublishing.com/weapon/
http://www.ospreypublishing.com/new_vanguard/
The Bodliean have some new WWI titles
http://www.bodleianbookshop.co.uk/
Online books
H.C.W. Angelo: The school of fencing
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K0cCAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=angelo+fencing&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8MzTU-mzJMmAPdexgIAP&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=angelo%20fencing&f=false
Frederick Markham: Shooting in the Himalayas: A Journal of Sporting Adventures
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nkAFAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=shooting&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pczTU5LGE4fmObPZgIAP&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=shooting&f=false
Popular culture
British writers reveal their inspiration from stories of the Great War
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/26/untold-stories-first-world-war-leading-writers
Review of Valiant Hearts: The Great War
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/20/valiant-hearts-the-great-war-review
A look at recent reel histories
http://www.theguardian.com/film/series/reelhistory
Barbie gets a new suit of armour- pictures
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/3dprinted-medieval-armour-turns-barbie-into-a-dragon-slayer-9611557.html
Events
News from Brussells
http://www.legermuseum.be/
Paris
http://www.musee-armee.fr/programmation/evenements.html
HBSA
https://sites.google.com/site/hbsauk/home
Diary dates - a lot of tournaments
Denmark tournament
http://www.middelaldercentret.dk/Events/joustofthegolden.html
Kaltenberg’s tournament
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/jul/14/worlds-biggest-joust-bavaria-germany
http://www.ritterturnier.de/en/
England
http://themedievalfestival.leeds-castle.com/home
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/events/knights-and-jousts/
Calls for papers
3-6 June 2015 Madrid
ARCHAEOMETALLURGY IN EUROPEhttp://www.congresos.cchs.csic.es/aie4/call-for-papers
Sales Fairs and auctions
Collection of artillery offered for sale this autumn
http://www.springfieldarsenal.net/
30 July 2014 London
Modern Sporting Guns
http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/21658/
Websites and downloads
Illustrated article in Italian by Giovanni Dellantonio on cannons of Gregor Löffler
http://www.academia.edu/7527425/Due_di_dodici_con_Giove_Ammone_i_falconetti_di_Gregor_Loffler_per_Sigismondo_Thun_datati_1554_Carlo_V_e_il_rame_di_Ferdinando_I_dAsburgo
Submarine B-396, Moscow
http://englishrussia.com/2014/07/17/submarine-b-396-one-of-the-best-moscow-museums/
Latest magazine from Les Invalides
http://www.musee-armee.fr/fileadmin/user_upload/Documents/Echo-du-Dome/museearmee_echodudome_30.pdf
Updates at DeReMilitari
http://deremilitari.org/
1066 etc: Jousts, castles, cities
http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/18/urban-jousts-the-later-middle-ages-white-bear-bruges/
http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/16/images-castles-medieval-manuscripts/
http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/22/image-city-peace-war-burgundian-manuscript-jean-froissarts-chronicles/
Finally
This fortnight we tweeted Shropshire monuments, with added squirrels
https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe
Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown – 28 July 2014
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They mentioned and linked to the big cannon sale under "Sales
fairs , and Auctions"