[SunkenCiv]

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

[Claud]

Stunning. The find and the cross!

Looks like an early version of this:

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

[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.

[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``...

[afraidfortherepublic]

English Church? In those years, it would be the Roman Catholic Church. Imagine being converted by St. Augustine, or his emmisary!

Beautiful cross.

[NYer]

In 597 AD, the pope dispatched St Augustine to England on a mission to convert the pagan Anglo-Saxon kings; a process that was not completed for many decades. Using the latest scientific techniques to analyse this exceptional find could result in a greater understanding of this pivotal period in British history, and the spread of Christianity in eastern England in the Anglo-Saxon period.

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