The 300-year old Anglo-Saxon Cross is represented at Cambridge Museum

A beautiful golden cross and garnet mineral have been found on the body of an old girl 1, 300 years, presented by the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The girl was found in 2011 by Cambridge University arecologists a few miles from the museum at Trumpington. Bed on it [...]
The girl was found in 2011 by Cambridge University arecologists a few miles from the museum at Trumpington.
The bed on which she was lying dates back to the desert, but the crowded cross on her dress still shone, reports the Guardian”, the Periscope broadcast.

Both tombs of Anglo-Saxon beds and benches with such royal qualities are extremely rare discoveries. Part of such burials by the end of the 7th century have been discovered, all believed to be women, but only one of them had a cross.
The cross suggests that she was a converter to a Christian, but she was buried in the mid - 650 ' s and 680 AD in pagan style with various ornaments, which surely had valuable assets, including gold and minerals of the type of garnet, an iron knife, glass bead, and a chain probably hung by her generation.
It was found in the midst of a group of graves, possibly relatives, in a country without the former Angloaxonic ties./Periscopi/












