Mystery of Anglo-Saxon teen buried in bed with gold cross

Past Horizons Magazine ^ | Friday, March 16, 2012 | unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

Gold and garnet cross after conservation. Image: Cambridge Archaeological Unit

[SunkenCiv]

LR’s link:

http://news.yahoo.com/uk-experts-7th-century-teen-buried-her-bed-002203088.html

The fountainhead:

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/mystery-of-anglo-saxon-teen-buried-in-bed-with-gold-cross/

[Claud]

Stunning. The find and the cross!

Looks like an early version of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canterbury_cross

[SunkenCiv]

anglo-saxon bed burial

Google

[SunkenCiv]

They did some fine work, or had the cash to pay for fine work.

[SunkenCiv]

Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me,
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
Remembers me of all his gracious parts,
Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form.

Constance in King John (William Shakespeare)

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[DannyTN]

Don’t remove the cross. She might be a vampire.

[Texas Fossil]

Other images and details here:

http://hefenfelth.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/7th-century-english-princess-grave-revealed/

[Neoliberalnot]

A fascinating find.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-—the very early years of the English Church, probably between 650 and 680 AD-—

1360 years was a pretty good run.

[bunkerhill7]

It`s a Maltese Cross 500 years before its time.

[ExGeeEye]

Written, IIRC, shortly after the death of Shakespeare's young son Hamnet.

He put a lot of himself into his work. In Hamlet, I think he is reflected best in Horatio rather than in the Prince himself.

[GeronL]

Someday they will dig up your grave and wonder what your life was like.

[bunkerhill7]

Thre is a``C`` at the right top of the bottom cross segnment on the back side, & an ``E`` at the left segment of the right part of the cross where it joins the middle circle.

C = Christus?
E = ?

[bunkerhill7]

``E`` = Etiam?
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``The history of the reformation of the Church of England` - Google Books Result
Gilbert Burnet, Edward Nares, Nicholas Pocock - 1679 - 864 pages
``CHRISTUS ETIAM instituendo Sacramentum hoc Corporis & Sanguinis siii,inquir
,Hocquo- tiescunq} facitis, facite in raeam commemorationem``...

[Cicero]

Also what looks like a five-pointed star and a crux ansata on the top cross segment, tilted at roughly the same angle as that C.

[bunkerhill7]

Yes could be correct-

also

13 x 4 garnets = 52 weeks in a year
10 garnets in circle = 10
62 garnets
gold balls 7 x 4 = 28

7 balls = 7 days in a week
4 weeks in a month?
28 days?

[bunkerhill7]

Could be an OMEGA Gk. letter directly opposite the ``E`` on the left side back on the circle joint?

[Cicero]

I don’t see the omega, but the numbers are interesting. The seven-day week is essentially religious, being derived from the Genesis account of the Six Days of Creation and the Sabbath day of rest.

You might want a reminder of which day Sunday comes around, if you don’t have printed calendars, computers, or newspapers to tell you what day of the week it is.