The Basiliscoe Mercury 256

The Basiliscoe Mercury 256


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


Lots of hunting and fishing stories from right round the world. Confirmation of the identity of HMS Terror and the ramifications of the Franklin expedition- why did they die and who owns the artefacts rumbles on. Two big exhibitions for autumn- medieval Jerusalem in New York and medieval embroidery in London. Last chance to come to the Wallace collection seminar at theweekend!



Arms and armour in the news


Hunting round the world and through the ages


Mammoth found in California island

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/14/us/mammoth-skull-fossil-found-california/inhttp://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016...st-evidence-yet-dogs-were-our-ancient-hunting


Fishing in Japan, 20,000 years ago

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/19/asia/japan-okinawa-worlds-oldest-fish-hooks/


Fisherman’s hut from the Ottoman empire, Ashkelon, Israel

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/bre...ouse-discovered-on-ashkelon-beach/2016/09/20/

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...scinating-glimpse-into-lives-of-a7322541.html


The trouble with melting glaciers…

http://www.scientificamerican.com/a...c-is-actually-a-nightmare-for-archaeologists/


Grave stories


Burials in Georgia examined

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/ne...urials-at-an-ancient-cemetery-in-georgia.html


Reconstructing an Inca warrior’s face

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-peru-archaeology-idUSKCN11S20O


Death by boomerang

http://phys.org/news/2016-0http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/2020903/why-everyones-looking-wrong-place-http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-37412519


Well in time for Hallowe-en- Witches in Bodiam

http://www.kentlive.news/spooky-and...odiam-castle/story-29729239-detail/story.html


Cannons to the left, cannon to the right


New way to smuggle drugs- shoot them from cannons

http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/...-rigged-with-cannon-used-to-shoot-drugs-to-us


Thai Minister of defence worships before ancient cannonshttp://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/1091332/gen-preecha-worships-before-ancient-cannons


Tale of a Confederate cannon

http://tucson.com/entertainment/wee...cle_e637e845-83b2-5f31-9c01-0606c87392df.html


Café Basiliscoe


Brewing beer from 200 year old yeast

http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/history-culture/2016/09/worlds-oldest-beehttps://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2016/09/whisky-pulled-from-120-year-old-shipwreck-goes-to-auction/


Miscellany


Interesting article about explosions in Tudor and Stuart London

http://www.historyextra.com/article/bbc-history-magazine/accidental-explosions-gunpowdhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/bonfire-night-why-do-we-celebrate-with-firework-displays-who-was/


Update on excavating 16th century Florida

http://wuwf.org/post/uwf-archaeologists-find-more-evidence-daily-life-1559-luna-settlement


Under Oppenheim in war and peace- interesting story!

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/exploring-underground-tunnels-oppenhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/5/archaeologist-looks-for-remains-of-green-bay-milit/


Into the 20th century


What to do with Hitler’s birthplace?

http://www.dw.com/en/future-of-hitlers-birth-house-under-debate/a-19563214


Putting the cold into theColdWar…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...roject-greenland-camp-century-project-iceworm


World Heritage


Sentence in trial of destruction of the Timbuktu shrines

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...nine-years-destruction-ahmad-al-faqi-al-mahdi


How not to restore your Great Wall

http://artdaily.com/news/90333/Chinese-outrage-over--ugly--restoration-of-Great-Wall#.V-ZAljHrt9A


Japanese history in the VOC archives

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201609220050.html


Piece about historical monuments in the Punjab

http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/spectrum/a-town-of-many-tales/299701.html


Nautical news


Latest finds from the Antikythera wreck: spoiler- it’s human

http://artdaily.com/news/90270/Arch...leton-at-Mediterranean-shipwreck#.V-I_yDHrt9A


Looking for the VOC ship Aagtekerke

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...s/news-story/06ed8f2ae95f51fabb57b1215437e5de


Latest from Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes and its cannon

http://www.elmundo.es/la-aventura-de-la-historia/2016/09/20/57e14c35ca47418b7c8b45a9.html

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2421393&CategoryId=13003


Interesting story about Charles Brookefield and HMS Winchester

http://www.flkeysnews.com/living/article103719687.html


Survey of the Utrecht, lost off the Orkneys, 1807

http://stv.tv/news/north/1368145-orkney-divers-survey-wreck-of-200-year-old-dutch-warship/


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Questions raised by the HMS Terror discovery

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/discovery-of-hms-terror-heats-up-battle-over-whttp://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/terror-erebus-arctic-tourism-1.3765559?cmp=rss

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/26/canada-hms-terror-ship-wreck-inuit-aboriginals


And what killed Franklin’s crew…

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/09/21/accidents-not-illness-may-have-killed-many-offichttp://www.livescience.com/56160-last-shipwreck-wwi-battle-of-jutland-found.html


Wreck of Yamato battleship filmed in HD http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201609280038.html


Scotland's hidden shipwrecks

http://stv.tv/news/features/1367799-history-beneath-the-waves-scotland-s-hidden-shipwrecks/



Museum news and exhibitions


News


Effects of increasing ivory ban

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/27/total-ban-on-ivory-sales-would-endanger-art


New museums


New work at Washington’s National Gallery

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/see-how-washington-s-national-gallery-of-art-grows/


New museum of antiquities planned for Cyprus

http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/09/20/competition-announced-design-new-cyprus-museum/


Museum musings


Canadian Museum establishes department to return artefacts to first nations

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/mus...r-repatriation-of-first-nation-cultural-heri/


British Museum and aborigine artefacts

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...attitude-to-seized-artefacts?CMP=share_btn_tw


International cooperation

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/mus...times-says-outgoing-v-a-director-martin-roth/


Conservation corner


Conserving the Black Prince’s jupon

https://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/2016/09/22/historic-treasures-in-london-exhibithttp://www.dailyprogress.com/lifest...cle_041c6c44-7b99-11e6-a45d-c77f207abe2a.html


Restoring the Dauntless

http://m.warhistoryonline.com/featured/plane-world-war-ii-found-lake-michigan-restored-phttp://www.coinworld.com/news/world...-auction-marks-dutch-shipwreck-recovery.html#


Civil War photograph album

http://www.npr.org/2016/09/21/49473...ure-rare-photos-show-black-civil-war-soldiers


Artificial leg from WWI goes on display

http://www.culture24.org.uk/science-and-nature/art562637-erskine-world-war-one-glasgow-limb


The story of London’s bomb disposal’s medals

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...9-richard-moore-museum-london-docklands-blitz


Exhibitions


Rock art from Africa in the London

http://artdaily.com/news/90418/British-Museum-display-focuses-on-rock-art#.V-tzXeTrt9A


Medieval embroidery in London

http://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/opus-anglicanum-masterpieces-of-english-medieval-embhttp://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/visit/exhibitions/exhibitionprogramme/erskine100/#d.en.434510


The Rhine at Bonn

http://artdaily.com/news/90231/The-...hibition-at-the-Bundeskunsthalle#.V-DsZDHrt9A


Second empire in Paris

http://www.apollo-magazine.com/its-time-to-look-again-at-the-golden-age-of-sleaze-and-shttp://artdaily.com/news/90297/Exhibition-in-Turin-celebrates-the-most-impohttp://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2016/jerusalem

http://artdaily.com/news/90350/The-...1400--Every-People-Under-Heaven-#.V-eI5jHrt9A

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/a...rref=collection/sectioncollection/design&_r=0

https://www.theguardian.com/culture...y-people-under-heaven-exhibit-met-art-history


The Branchini Altarpiece in LA

http://patch.com/california/pacific...bition-reunites-giovanni-di-paolo-masterpiece



Books


George Winfree & Tom Vossler: A Field Guide to Antietam

http://phys.org/news/2016-09-aims-people-explore-antietambattlefield.html#jCp


Russell A. Potter: Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search

http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/finding-franklin


Ed. Jill Ahlberg Yohe: Plains Indian Art of the Early Reservation Era

http://artdaily.com/news/90254/Sain...rt-of-the-Early-Reservation-Era-#.V-JB2DHrt9A


Book sale at Boydell & Brewer

https://boydellandbrewer.com/



Popular culture


Netflix to release "Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang" http://artdaily.com/news/90440/Netf...e-Art-of-Cai-Guo-Qiang--#.V-tzr2uqi0E.twitter


Well in time for Hallowe’en- vintage mummy tales!

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...-m-alcott-conan-doyle-shelf-life-rachel-cooke


Events


Conferences


30 September 2016 - 1 October 2016 Wallace Collection

All Depends Upon the Brave: Recent Research into Museum Collections of Ottoman, Middle Eastern and Asian Arms and Armour

http://www.wallacecollection.org/ms/learn/conferences/


8 October Worcester

ORDCON 2016

https://www.facebook.com/ORDCON & emmersonrw@aol.com


14 -16 October 2016 London

1066: Interpreting the Norman Conquest in 2016

https://www.royalarmouries.org/assets-uploaded/documents/1066_conference_updated_web_info_v_3.pdf


15 October Guildhall, Shrewsbury

Fortress Salopia Symposium- Shropshire’s military heritage

http://www.ucshrewsbury.ac.uk/news/...y-event-explore-shropshires-military-heritage


Sales, fairs and auctions


Results of the tank museum sale, Normandy

http://artdaily.com/news/90244/The-...collection-achieves--4-2-million#.V-DsyjHrt9A


Julia’s October sale preview

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/09/prweb13693823.htm


05 October 2016 Paris

Bibliothèque cynégétique du Verne : Vénerie, fauconnerie, chasses

http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2016/bibliotheque-cynegetique-du-verne-bernis-pf1633.html


19 October 2016Edinburgh

The Sporting Sale

http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23501/


24 October – 5 November Hermann Historica, Munich

Annual Autumn Auction 2016

Catalogues ow online

http://www.hermann-historica.de/db2_en/newauction.html


1066 etc


Baltic wars, crusading ethics & Baltic crusades

http://www.medievalists.net/2016/09...d-warfare-and-total-annihilation-around-1200/

http://www.medievalists.net/2016/09/17/an-approach-to-crusading-ethics/

http://deremilitari.org/2016/09/documents-relating-to-the-baltic-crusade-1199-1266/


Finally: Build your own trebuchet

http://www.popsci.com/build-mini-medieval-siege-weapon


This fortnight we tweeted Heritage Day pictures

https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe



Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown –29 September 2016


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