This gold cross has been purposefully bent out of shape, and it is one of only a few non-martial objects discovered in the Staffordshire Hoard. Scholars believe it may have been an altar or processional cross; other than being folded, perhaps to fit into the space, the cross is intact. Its gemstones have come out, but some are present in the hoard. The cross is one of about 1,500 gold and silver objects recovered from the Staffordshire Hoard, an Anglo Saxon warrior's cache recovered from an agricultural field near Birmingham, England.
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