Gold and Garnet Cross



Amazing Find is a Beautiful Gold and Garnet Cross

An excessively rare grave has been located in a 1400 year old Anglo-saxon burial site in Cambridgeshire. The grave in Trumpington Meadows contains the skeletal remains of a 16-year-old female Catholic convert lying on an ornamental bed clutching a beautifully worked gold and garnet cross. 

It is thought that the girl, from the 7th century AD, was a member of nobility, persuaded to join the Christian faith after the Pope dispatched  the benedictine monk, St Augustine, known as the ‘Apostle to the English ’, to England in 597AD.  It was Augustines job to convert Anglo-Saxon pagan kings and their families.