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Mangled Cross and Reconstruction from the Staffordshire Hoard
A mangled gold cross (bottom right) sits nexts to an artists impression of how it would have originally looked, as part of the The Staffordshire Hoard, the UK's largest collection of Anglo Saxon treasure ever found, at Birmingham Museum
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The complete cross in the middle is a reconstruction of the mangled cross in the corner, and each of the gems next to it. The cross is of gold and the gems garnets; it was part of the Staffordshire Hoard, believed to represent the personal cache of an elite Anglo-Saxon warrior, and to date to the 7th century AD.
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