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Staffordshire Hoard
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Gold Cross from the Staffordshire Hoard
Gold Cross from the Staffordshire Hoard
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This gold cross with an inlaid gem is one of nearly 1500 pieces of gold and silver recovered from an agricultural field near Birmingham, England. Believed to be the personal cache of an elite Anglo-Saxon warrior, the Staffordshire Hoard has been dated to the 7th century AD.
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