The Basiliscoe Mercury 302

The Basiliscoe Mercury302


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


Sadly Margaret Vining of the Smithsonian died in the last month but she leaves a wonderful legacy. Otherwise another sword from a lake- this time in Sweden - Portuguese cannons, Welsh castles and the Eighty Years War.


Arms and armour in the news


Obituaries


Margaret Vining

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/newbernsj/obituary.aspx?n=margaret-simmons-vining&pid=190411465

http://americanhistory.si.edu/profile/528


Ancient arms


90,000 year old stone knife out of Africa

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-bone-knife-hints-special-tools-appeared-early-africa


Horse and chariot found in Iron Age Yorkshire site

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/new...t-discovered-in-east-yorkshire-town-1-9376726


Roman legionaries graves found in Bulgaria?

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/ne...ogists-discover-rich-graves-roman-period.html


This week swords in a lake- Swedish, pre-Viking

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45753455


Roman legionaries graves found in Bulgaria?

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/ne...ogists-discover-rich-graves-roman-period.html


Grave stories


Grisly remains of the victims of Civil War 2000 years ago found in Israel

https://www.timesofisrael.com/mass-...erusalem-evidence-of-holy-kings-bloody-reign/


3D copy of the Man of Janisławice- oldest skeleton found in Poland http://disq.us/t/36tgb4x


Through the arrow-slit . . .


Investigating Offa’s Dyke and Chirk Castle

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales...rchaeology&link_location=live-reporting-story


Update on excavations at Sheffield Castle

https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/shef...s-new-finds-fire-public-imagination-1-9376227


Cannons to the left, cannon to the right


Genoese cannon in Spain

http://www.sansebastian1813.es/440786309


Piece on a 17th century Macao-Portuguese cannon in Oman

https://timesofoman.com/article/225...-Portuguese-cannon-a-blast-at-National-Museum


British cast-iron cannon found in fort in Lahore

https://tribune.com.pk/story/1815411/1-inquiry-launched-cannons-discovered-lahore-fort/#


Back to the front


Update on Bosworth planning decision

https://www.historyextra.com/period...ge-goodwin-horiba-mira-car-track-archaeology/


80 years’ war from the Spanish point of view?

https://elpais.com/cultura/2018/09/30/actualidad/1538326311_241582.html


News from Culloden

https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/culloden-thanks-local-community-this-autumn


Exploring the lives of Fort Douglas’s 19th century soldiers

https://www.ksl.com/?nid=960&sid=46395469


Living in the past


Medieval re-enactor killed in accident in Kentucky

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/ameri...nactor-dies-after-2m-lance-spears-his-abdomen


Princesses and Amazons


Woman warriors of the ancient world

https://theconversation.com/warrior...ient-world-was-full-of-female-fighters-104343


Nautical news


16th century Portuguese wreck found near Lisbon

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/24/400-year-old-ship-found-off-portuguese-coast-cascais


The truth about Edward Barlow- EICo sailor

http://artdaily.com/news/107992/Bri...-rape-confession----300-years-on#.W7iH6jHQZ9A


More bits of HMS Severn found off New Jersey, lost 1804

https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/...4-year-old-shipwreck-found-on-a-jersey-beach/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-45798633


Update on this season’s work on HMS Erebus

https://www.livescience.com/63704-franklin-expedition-artifacts-recovered.html


Diving Cornwall’s U-boats

https://divernet.com/2018/08/08/the-u-boat-coast/



Museum news and exhibitions


News


Store of Deutches Museum in Ingolstadt destroyed by fire

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/fire-consumes-depot-at-deutsches-museum


Updates from Rio fire

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/comment/rio-national-museum-fire-restoration

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/new...rebuilding-efforts-with-temporary-exhibitions


New museums


Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, re-opens

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/sweden-s-biggest-museum-goes-free


Gallery of Japanese Culture re-opens in the British Museum

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/japanese-collection-back-on-show-from-armour-to-the-a-bomb


V&A Photography centre

https://museumcrush.org/va-photogra...ring-collections-of-photography-in-the-world/


Museum musings


British museum defends its collections against accusations of looting

https://www.theguardian.com/culture...was-looted-british-museum-defends-collections


What to do with the Berghof?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/25/what-to-do-about-hitler-alpine-retrhttps://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/death-triumphs-at-the-prado


Conserving a Japanese armour

https://blog.britishmuseum.org/conserving-a-suit-of-samurai-armour/


Exhibitions


Bellini and Mantegna in London

http://artdaily.com/news/108152/Exh...-their-families-and-their-cities#.W7sUczHQZ9A


Oceanic art in London

http://artdaily.com/news/107939/Roy...ey-of-Oceanic-art-held-in-the-UK#.W7iKHDHQZ9A


The Tsars in London

http://artdaily.com/news/107818/New...Tsar-opens-at-the-Science-Museum#.W6nxBzHQZ9A


Roger Fenton’s Crimea War photographs in London

https://museumcrush.org/the-birth-of-war-photography-roger-fenton-and-the-crimean-war/


Unicorns in Paris

https://www.boutiquesdemusees.fr/fr/selection/magiques-licornes-5338/1/


Louis Phillipe in Versailles

https://www.boutiquesdemusees.fr/fr/selection/louis-philippe-versailles-5447/1/


80 Years’ War in Amsterdam

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/80-years-war



Brueghel in Vienna- a stunner!

http://artdaily.com/news/108018/Kun...ter-Bruegel-the-Elder-exhibition#.W7iHdDHQZ9A


History of embroidery at Winterhur

http://artdaily.com/news/108095/-Em...edlework-as-a-document-of-record#.W7iFxzHQZ9A


Royal British portraits at Houston

http://artdaily.com/news/108101/Unp...0-years-of-the-British-monarchy-#.W7nBNzHQZ9A


Books


New publication from Ingolstadt

https://www.donaukurier.de/lokales/ingolstadt/In-neuem-Licht;art599,3941229


Books from the Rjiksmuseum

https://www.rijksmuseumshop.nl/en/books-and-dvd-s


Online book


Selection of arms and armour articles available till December

http://explore.tandfonline.com/page/ah/yaaa-15th-anniversary-vsi?platform=hootsuite



Popular Culture


Searching for the original Wolf Hall

https://www.theguardian.com/culture...covered-by-archaeologists-hilary-mantel-novel


Cai Guo-Qiang in Florence

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/new...tar-cai-guo-qiang-to-get-major-show-at-uffizi


Peter Jackson brings colour and sound to the First World War

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/enter...gs-director-peter-jackson-makes-ww1-in-colour


Rachel Whiteread’s 1918 memorial

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/new...t-inside-out-for-her-first-uk-permanent-piece


Celebration of Where Eagles Dare

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...danny-boy-where-eagles-dare-geoff-dyer-review


Events


Sales Fairs and auctions


Lion of Punjab treasure leads Bonham’s Islamic and Indian Art sale in London http://artdaily.com/news/108258/Lio...ic-and-Indian-Art-sale-in-London#.W8BaLjHQZ9A


17 Oct 2018 London

The Marine Sale

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24654/


23 Oct 2018 London

Islamic and Indian Art including Sikh Treasures and Arts of the Punjab

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24624/


24 Oct 2018 Edinburgh

The Sporting Sale

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24759/


Catalogues for Hermann Historica autumn sale out

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



Websites and downloads

1066 etc


New website for Veste Coburg

https://www.kunstsammlungen-coburg.de/en/home/


Wallace Collection

https://www.wallacecollection.org/?gclid=CJKYnb63jsICFSX3wgod56QATg


News from Paris- latest edition

http://www.musee-armee.fr/fileadmin...nts/Echo-du-Dome/museearmee_echodudome_43.pdf


1066 etc: London guilds, Gawain, fighting clerics and Norwegian kings

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/10...n-for-craft-and-industry-in-medieval-england/

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/10/gawain-scribe-also-artist/

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/10/medieval-church-military-power/

http://www.medievalists.net/2018/10/the-leaders-king-sverre-and-king-haakon/


Finally


This fortnight I’ll be tweeting pictures from Slovenia

https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe



Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown –14 October 2018


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Thank you so much for postings this..great reading