Brass Cross

[pcolaboy]

Hunted a friend's dirt pile today and found a beautiful copper/brass cross. I'm not Catholic but it looks like a Rosary chain cross. Can anyone take a crack at identification and age? This same yard has yielded lots of British and Spanish colonial artifacts in addition to American.


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Pcolaboy

 

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[RELICDUDE07]

Thanks ivan

 

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[Bigcypresshunter]

however finding no silver or gold and finding the local indains highly resistant to attempts to exploit them (they killed many of the jesuit "task master" type missionarys sent to try to turn them into "forced labor") the jesuit order deemed florida as "unprofietible" and pulled out of florida --the franciscans order then moved in .

A lot of people dont realize that the ancient now extinct Florida Calusa Indians were violent and very well organized and resisted all Spanish attempts to make a settlement to protect its shipping lanes. Early shipwreck survivors (pre-1715) were tortured and killed from the Keys up to the Cape and the lower Gulf side as well.

 

[ivan salis]

the early pensacola area settlers had a hard road to travel trying to set up shop in the area --as big cy said --the major indain tribe of the panhandle area was "very" bad news -- and they tended kill "foreigners" on site or took them as slaves --killing them later on at a whim if they choose to -- mean nasty types to try and deal with -- (maybe they had a clue of the "enslavement" that was to come -- so maybe they were in a way smarter than the other local tribes --in trying to drive out the "foreigners" )

 

[RELICDUDE07]

MEDIEVAL BRONZE CROSS, Italy, c. 14th-17th century. 1.25 inches. Scarce.

 

[ivan salis]

I recently donated via my local preist some early peroid spanish catholic church related type relic items that i found locally -- its seems that the catholic church in st augustine is making a display of "early spanish era catholic artifacts" for visitors to look at when they visit there--

my preist was quite happy to recieve the items and even talked with me about trying to get me access to some of the "special" very old church records in st augustine (it is a well known fact that the church scribes often were the record keepers and letter writers for a mostly illiterate population.)

i still say jesuit type "mission" cross from jesuit mission era -- thus 1572 or eariler --since thats when the jesuits pulled out of florida * --of course it could have been lost by a jesuit faith "passer thru"from mexico or south america at alater date --the skull and crossbones at christ feet --means christ beat death -- by raising again from the deaD.-- IT WAS ONLY USED LONG AGO -THAT SYMBOLISM STOPPED in the 1800 time frame .

 

[planejet42]

Cool find!

 

[KLGourley]

That is really awesome!

 

[BobinSouthVA]

Wow thanks for bringing this back to the top Relicdude07. I had missed this one.

Love the symbolism on the back.