The Basiliscoe Mercury 210

The Basiliscoe Mercury 210
The Internet newsletter for the arms and armour community
Important Japanese sword rediscovered, the final word on Richard III’s injuries, longswords in comeback and the TankMuseum and Brad Pitt - a little more glamourous than usual…
Arms and armour in the news
Ancient arms and forts
Norwich curator’s favourite prehistoric axe
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art499289
Prehistoric metalworkers in England might have been children
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/sep/18/stonehenge-gold-workers-metal-children-eyesight
Update on the Alexander period tomb - Greeks are flocking
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-29239529
2000-year old ironworks found by Archaeologists in Kush, Sudan
http://popular-archaeology.com/issu...ingdom-of-kush-iron-industry-works-discovered
Asterix’s boomerang came back - ancient Gaul’s weapon
http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogs...d-boomerang-found-in-france.html#.VCEkqrAtCUk
Lost Roman fort found in Gernsheim
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140915083738.htm#
Roman army artefacts found in Dumfriesshire
http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogs...umfries-unearths-roman-army.html#.VB1DZ7AtCUk
Grave of Viking smith and his tools found in a Norwegian garden
http://irisharchaeology.ie/2014/09/viking-blacksmiths-grave-uncovered-in-norway/
National Museum of Ireland’ series of videos on battle of Clontarf - includes weapons
http://irisharchaeology.ie/2014/04/...-of-videos-by-the-national-museum-of-ireland/
Medieval axes found in Germany
http://www.naukawpolsce.pap.pl/en/n...onic-axes-in-the-forest-district-wipsowo.html

Grave stories
Hero or looter - re-interpreting an Iron Age fort in Iran
http://www.livescience.com/47713-golden-bowl-hasanlu-archaeology.html
Update on exactly how Richard III died
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-29222775
http://press.thelancet.com/RichardIII.pdf
Miscellany
Nottingham properties destroyed in the Civil war investigated
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...ivil-Royalists-found-Nottinghamshire-pipeline
Cannons to the left, cannon to the right
Spoiler alert: every time someone has produced a Portuguese gun proving Australia was discovered by the Portuguese, it turns out to be an Asian lantaka
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...e-history-Europeans-discovered-continent.html
State of Southwold’s cannon causes concern
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/iconic_cannons_on_southwold_s_gun_hill_in_need_of_repairs_1_3768787
Fort Nelson’s 64-pounder readied for firing
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...ry-victorian-64-pounder-gun-for-a-rare-firing
Cannon fails at FortMcHenry re-enactment
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.co...reech-failure-after-weeklong-celebration25690
Into the 20th century
Australian and New Zealand historians re-examine the battlefield at Gallipoli
http://www.theage.com.au/national/w...etween-diggers-and-turks-20140916-10hegl.html

How school children liberated a Stucka aerial
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...en-by-schoolboys-during-the-battle-of-britain
Investigating Sobibor
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...rs-discovered-at-Nazi-death-camp-Sobibor.html
Nautical news
Underwater discoveries from Turkey
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/mi...ggest.aspx?pageID=238&nID=71285&NewsCatID=375
Update on the San Marcos project in Ireland
http://elpais.com/elpais/2014/09/09/inenglish/1410267923_462131.html
Possible 16th century shipwreck found off Greece
http://greece.greekreporter.com/201...o-zakynthos-for-philip-ii-of-spain-shipwreck/
Cannon raised from seas off Cyprus
http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogs...k+(The+Archaeology+News+Network)#.VBviLrAtCUk
Update on HMS London
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-28800309
Story of NH New Castle’s mystery wreck
http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140921/GJNEWS_01/140929919/0/SEARCH
Harrowing story of a French shipwreck and its survivors
http://archaeology.org/issues/145-1409/features/2361-tromelin-island-castaways
Shipwrecks in Cornwall
http://www.cornishman.co.uk/Mysteries-drive-divers-depths/story-22903148-detail/story.html
Divers finally get down to the Franklin wreck
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/diving-begins-around-franklin-shipwreck
Luftwaffe Junkers 88, shot down in 1944, found in Shetland
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-29144276
Museum news and exhibitions
News
Unsurprisingly, archaeologists leave Kurdistan
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/arti...haeological-research-in-Iraqi-Kurdistan/35704
Never rains but it hails: terrible storm damage to historic buildings in Florencehttp://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Hailstorm-does-m-worth-of-damage-to-Florences-museums/35683
John Kerry speaks out against the cultural destruction and looting in the Middle East at the Met
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/US-Secretary-of-State-denounces-ISs-destruction-of-heritage-in-Syria-and-Iraq/35692 …
London’s National Gallery to introduce membership scheme
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/sep/24/national-gallery-membership-scheme
New museums
Canada receives a gift of Islamic art for new museum
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Aga-Khans-gift-to-Canada/35472
London’s ScienceMuseum receives money for new maths gallery
http://www.culture24.org.uk/science...e-maths-sexy-with-its-new-mathematics-gallery
China’s new national art gallery plans unveiled
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Designs-for-Beijing-megamuseum-unveiled/35679
Update on changes at the Louvre
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/arti...nez-reveals-revolutionary-changes-ahead/35180
Augustus’ palace in Rome open for visitors after conservation - stunning frescos
http://artdaily.com/news/73014/Roma...-time-after-years-of-restoration#.VB_X77AtCUk
Museum developments
Pan-European website for WWI to be launched next month
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...of-first-world-war-to-launch-online-in-Octobe
Illustrated London News WWI archive goes online
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...ve-of-the-illustrated-london-news-goes-online
British Museum to go on Minecraft
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29281051
Conservation corner – this week, all imperious ladies!
Investigating portraits of Queen Elizabeth
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...rushed-elizabeth-i-in-x-ray-of-tudor-portrait
http://artdaily.com/news/72788/Eliz...-and-a-bug-is-found-in-Edward-VI#.VBKlo7Ag-Uk
Conserving portrait of Empress Dowager Cixi for Washington
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Empresss-first-portrait-restored/35499
Objects
Famous, lost Japanese sword found and goes on display
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2014/09/12/famous-sword-re-emerges-after-150-years/
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201409120001
Musée des Lettres et Manuscrits in Paris acquires marriage certificate of Napoleon and Josephine
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/To-have-and-to-hold/35687
The original star spangled banner
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...2cab5c-3830-11e4-bdfb-de4104544a37_story.html
19th century French armour
http://collections.musee-armee.fr/cuirasse-et-pot-en-tete-de-sapeur-du-genie-modele-1833/
Police seize illegally recovered arms and munitions from St Albans
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-29234314
Preview of Hermann Historica’s autumn sale
http://artdaily.com/news/73102/Wide...rmann-Historica-s-autumn-auction#.VCPOhLAtCUk
Exhibitions
Ming in London
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/ming.aspx
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/sep/19/ming-dynasty-british-museum
Gardens and the First World War
http://gardenmuseum.org.uk/page/3595
Tolkien in the Midlands
http://www.theguardian.com/books/20...ck-country-inspired-tolkien-lord-of-the-rings
http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/scu...ountry-art-gallery-opens-the-making-of-mordor
Borgias in Paris
http://artdaily.com/news/72998/Exhi...e-true-life-of-the-Borgia-family#.VB6HTbAtCUk
Art in post WWI France and Germany in Rheims
http://www.reims.fr/no_cache/actualites--1879/fiche/exposition-jours-de-guerre-et-de-paix-2.htm
http://artdaily.com/news/72915/Exhi...-view-of-the-consequences-of-war#.VBk_TLAtCUk
Sienese paintings in Brussels
http://artdaily.com/news/73064/-Pai...-Gothic-Age--on-view-in-Brussels#.VCJ8drAtCUk
http://www.bozar.be/
Rome of Augustus in Rome
http://artdaily.com/news/73078/Exhi...o-discover-the-city-of-Augustus-#.VCJ7WLAtCUk
19th century Asian photos in Washington
http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/2014/captain-linnaeus-tripe.html
Horses in Canberra
http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/spirited
http://artdaily.com/news/73089/Land...lebrates-Australia-s-horse-story#.VCPPNbAtCUk
Books
Mark W Allen & Terry L Jones (ed) Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers
https://www.lcoastpress.com/book.php?id=486
David J. Breeze: Hadrian's Wall: A History of Archaeological Thought
http://cumbriapast.com/cgi-bin/ms/main.pl?action=publications&pub_id=76&archive=
Ron Shoesmith; Goodrich Castle: Its History & Buildings
https://sites.google.com/site/logastonpress/Home/new-books-spring-2014
Tuomas Tepora & Aapo Roselius, (ed): The Finnish Civil War 1918: History, Memory, Legacy
http://www.brill.com/products/book/finnish-civil-war-1918
Camouflage takes centre stage
http://www.klm-mra.be/klm-new/neder...centre-stage/camouflage-takes-centre-stage-nl
Holland’s Golden Age in America: Collecting the Art of Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Hals
http://artdaily.com/news/72778/Fric...-publication-of-its-first-volume#.VBKl2LAg-Uk
Bernard Lowry Pillboxes and Tank Traps
http://www.shirebooks.co.uk/store/Pillboxes-and-Tank-Traps_9780747813569
Online Books - 17th century artillery this week
David Flurance Rivault: Les Elemens de l'Artillerie
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...epage&q="Les Elemens de l'Artillerie"&f=false
Diego Ufano Artillerie
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q="de l'artillerie"&f=false
Popular culture
Tank Museum spills the beans on Brad
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...itt-as-fury-gets-set-for-london-film-festival
How to blow up your piano
http://theweek.com/speedreads/index...in-the-name-of-science-dont-forget-to-do-this
Longswords making a come back as a fighting weapon in Maryland
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/sports/for-longsword-a-comeback-ages-in-the-making.html?_r=0
Events
Diary Dates
London Transport’s Battle Bus on tour in Belgium and France
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...gh-belgium-for-first-world-war-centenary-tour
Vienna
http://www.hgm.at/
HBSA calendar
https://sites.google.com/site/hbsauk/HBSA-calendar
Sale
October 7th-9th, 2014 - online
http://jamesdjulia.com/auction/369-october-2014-firearms-auction/?session=1
Websites and downloads
The GornjiUgaoTower
http://www.tzdubrovnik.hr/eng/vodic_novost.php?id=4935&id_main=1585#.VCO-0bAtCUk
Only a few days left to download the most recent Post-Meds for free
http://www.maneyonline.com/loi/pma
Like these:
http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/007943205X62624
http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/0079423612Z.0000000006
http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/174581307X236201
1066 etc; Daimyos, 100 years war, Scottish castle and Robin Hood
http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09...ses-daimyo-survival-sixteenth-century-japan/
http://deremilitari.org/2014/08/pro...r-the-subcontracts-of-sir-john-strother-1374/
http://deremilitari.org/2014/08/the...-kingdom-thirteenth-century-scottish-castles/
http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09...dentity-middling-sorts-late-medieval-england/
Finally
This fortnight we enjoyed tweets from https://twitter.com/DrIanFriel and https://twitter.com/ComingHomeOrg
https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe
Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown – 2014
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sigh . . . I don't think I will ever get through all the articles.
Sure do like this though.