The Basiliscoe Mercury 283

The Basiliscoe Mercury 283


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


Arms and armour in the news


A new site for Caesar’s invasion of Britain, what Gorm the Old looked like, odd finds in the latest gun amnesty, forts and museums in India, and a fortress under a Turkish lake. Plus the second part of the Christmas shopping; if you’re having trouble choosing, why not adopt a wrought-iron breechloader in Norwich instead?


Ancient arms, battles, and forts


Spanish warriors depicted on vase

https://elpais.com/cultura/2017/11/14/actualidad/1510672886_222840.html


Thracian fortress damaged

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/20...r-bulgarias-burgas-bulldozed-treasure-hunter/


Bulgarian fortress damaged

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/20...r-bulgarias-burgas-bulldozed-treasure-hunter/


3000 year old fortress found under Turkish lake

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-van-urartu-thousands-years-old-a8070911.html

https://www.livescience.com/61038-real-story-of-ancient-underwater-castle.html


Excavating Sardis

https://alumni.berkeley.edu/califor...-glitters-uncovering-sardis-ancient-city-gold


Iron Age sword among finds from Leicestershire

http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-news/ancient-sword-incredible-items-discovered-837742


Pegwell Bay - where Caesar landed?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...n-from-pegwell-bay-in-kent-say-archaeologists


Update on Viking camp at Repton

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/archaeolo...iking-camp-870s-village-repton-104659235.html


Beasts of assorted varieties…


Prehistoric dogs on a leash

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017...first-images-dogs-and-they-re-wearing-leashes


What did the Romans do for us? Bring us camels apparently….

https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsara...-were-common-across-the-empire/#7248780923f8t


Whales came to a sticky end in 19th century Orkney

http://www.newsweek.com/scotland-whale-bone-mystery-beached-shore-718919?piano_t=1


Yetis turn out to be bears after all

https://www.theguardian.com/science...-nine-yeti-specimens-as-eight-bears-and-a-dog


Grave stories


Gorm the Old gets the makeover treatment- spoiler- not a looker…

http://sciencenordic.com/denmark’s-first-viking-king-printed-3d


Massacrecave in Scotland- skeleton investigated http://www.newsweek.com/scotland-ar...terious-bones-discovered-massacre-cave-708283


Through the arrow-slit . . .


Excavating a medieval fortress in Bulgaria

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/20...-discovered-rescue-digs-bulgarias-asenovgrad/


Couldn’t see the castle for the trees in Northern Ireland

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-42019714


Investigating the castle of the Golden Horde, Crimea

http://tass.com/society/975401


Southampton’s walls to receive major funding

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-42111398


Gunloops, cannons and things that go bang


Update on the excavations at Hull’s citadel

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/highlighting-hulls-tudor-history.htm


Goa’s fortifications in need of repair

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Goa/Citize...s-immediate-government-attention-/123166.html


Visiting Fort and Battle of Sitabuldee

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...me-at-sitabuldi-fort/articleshow/61811264.cms


What makes Ahmedabad special as a world heritage city

http://ahmedabadmirror.indiatimes.c...-world-heritage-city/articleshow/61705596.cms


Researching two civil war cannons in Illinois

http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2017...y-cannons-date-back-to-the-civil-war/ahx1wzy/


Chile’s saltpetre works on endangered list

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/u...eritage-sites-in-danger-of-disappearing/89686


Living in the past


Publicizing your joust the medieval way

http://www.medievalists.net/2017/11/come-one-come-medieval-tournament-announcements/


Who’s behind the armour?

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-sty...bat-league-new-york-chapter-gallery-1.3657003


Ever wanted to dress up and fight like a Samurai? Now’s your chance

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201711230007.html


Café Basiliscoe


Iron Age stew

http://artdaily.com/news/100594/Uni...ew-light-on-prehistoric-feasting#.Wh7C2-SDN9A


With extra aubergine…

https://www.timesofisrael.com/what-...1100-years-ago-a-massive-refuse-pit-tells-us/


Princesses and Amazons


Women in trousers

http://museumcrush.org/women-wearin...ebrating-women-taking-strides-across-history/


Nautical news


Building boats in Viking Skye

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/..._historic_Viking_site_over_the_sea_is__saved/


Update on the Batavia graves

http://www.news.uwa.edu.au/2017112310154/research/batavias-mysteries-unfold-discovery-mass-grave


HMS Invincible shipwreck artefacts to go on show http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-42152214


Piece about the Revolutionary War wreck off St. Augustine http://jacksonville.com/metro/news/...ugustine-brings-era-life#.WhldlxQzOWU.twitter


Mapping Western Australia’s shipwrecks

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-volunteers-d-imaging-shipwrecks.html



Museum news and exhibitions


News


Investigating British military collections

http://materialculture.nl/en/projec...-collections-and-the-british-empire-1750-1900


New museums


New Military Gallery at Manx Museum

http:http://theartnewspaper.com/news/courtauld-sets-sights-on-50m-revamp-and-sends-art-on-tour


Museum developments


3D Pictish cave

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-van-urartu-thousands-years-old-a8070911.html


Museum musings


Modern conflict and current archaeology

https://www.theguardian.com/science...amage-really-damage-archaeology-iran-iraq-war


This week in statues

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42051352


Conservation corner


Accelerating particles for art

http://artdaily.com/news/100486/Wor...-revs-up-at-the-Louvre-in-Paris-#.WhhlO-SDN9A


Objects


Norwich museum puts up medieval weapons for adoption

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/norwich...ts-forward-for-keep-adopting-scheme-1-5286217


Latest gun amnesty turns up some historic firearms

http://talkradio.co.uk/news/world-w...olice-during-amnesty-west-country-17112121188

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/folkestone/news/wartime-pistol-handed-into-police-135846/

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/deadly-weapons-handed-bristol-police-806504

https://www.metro.news/clint-eastwood-film-prop-is-handed-in-to-police-during-gun-amnesty/837222/


French engravings in 18th century India

http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/spectrum/arts/how-objects-travel-across-continents/502365.html


Exhibitions


Illustrated medieval manuscripts in Oxford

http://museumcrush.org/how-english-graphics-muscled-their-way-into-medieval-manuscripts/


Watercolours from WWI in Leeds

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/new...-perspective-on-the-first-world-war-1-8873601


Medicine in wartime inAberdeen

https://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/events/12294/


Galileo in Padua

http://artdaily.com/news/100591/Exh...y-into-the-uniqueness-of-Galileo#.Wh0pduSDN9A


Portuguese empire in Moscow

http://www.kreml.ru/en-Us/exhibitio...krovishcha-portugalskoy-imperii-xvi-xviii-vv/


Books


Martin Robson: The Lancaster Bomber Pocket Manual1941-1945https://ospreypublishing.com/store/...next-month/the-lancaster-bomber-pocket-manual


Myra D. Orth: Renaissance Manuscripts: the Sixteenth Century (A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France), 2 vols,

http://theartnewspaper.com/review/h...-overlooked-manuscript-illumination-until-now


Latest Ken Trotman catalogue

http://www.kentrohttps://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/titles-with-full-text-online?searchtype=F

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpu...ications?searchtype=T&Tag=Online publications



Popular culture


Winston Churchill in America

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/nov/26/darkest-hour-winston-churchill-gary-oldman


The days when you were educated on the back of a cornflakes packet

http://cerealoffers.com/Kelloggs/Co...Through_the_Ages/armour_through_the_ages.html


Gaming and renaissance art

http://www.medievalists.net/2017/11/new-game-allows-students-explore-art-15th-16th-century-florence/


Gaming for rajahs

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-11-27-raji-and-the-rise-of-indian-gamedev


The Quantum Astrologer’s Handbook by Michael Brooks

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/nov/24/the-quantum-astrolgers-handbook-by-michael-brohttp://www.musee-armee.fr/actualites/blog-des-actualites.html


Christmas in York

http://www.medievalists.net/2017/11/york-becomes-home-medieval-christmas-celebrations/


Christmas in Denmark

http://natmus.dk/

https://www.middelaldercentret.dk/en


Sales, fairs and auctions


6 December 2017- London

Arms, armour and militaria

http://www.thomasdelmar.com/


6-13 December - online

Arts of the Samurai: the Dolphyn Collection

https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/arts-samurai-dolphyn-collection/lots/409



Websites and downloads


Vasa website

https://www.vasamuseet.se/en


Met blog on WWI

https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/in-circulation/2017/in-flanders-fields


1066 etc: Irish castles, archery, sick crusaders, war in Mercia & Ankara

http://www.medievalists.net/2017/11/defensibility-irish-tower-houses/

http://www.medievalists.net/2017/11...pius-wars-figured-image-agonistic-authorship/

http://www.medievalists.net/2017/11...er-campaigns-eastern-mediterranean-1095-1274/

http://www.medievalists.net/2017/11/war-mercia-942-943/

http://www.medievalists.net/2017/11/multi-agent-simulation-battle-ankara-1402/



Focus on Christmas shopping

https://www.museumsbutikken.dk/default.aspx?

https://www.si.edu/visit/museum-stores

http://shop.rmg.co.uk/?_ga=2.175380...MIqPeTyoPk1wIVLLvtCh2X7QXUEAAYASAAEgLYbPD_BwE

https://www.nts.org.uk/Shop/

https://www.bodleianshop.co.uk/

http://www.historial.org/


Finally


I shall be tweeting fantastic cannons for Christmas!

https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe



Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown –1 December 2017


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