The Antrim Cross

Materials: Bronze, Enamel. Accession no: HCA 627. Current Location: [The Hunt Museum](https://www.huntmuseum.com/) [Limerick](https://www.geonames.org/7778675/limerick-city.html). The Antrim Cross is a bronze cross with five equal arms from the [early 9th century](http://n2t.net/ark:/99152/p08m57h8zmq). The cross has five pyramidal bosses each in the form of a truncated pyramid. The side of the pyramids are decorated with interlocking angular fields of yellow enamel, alternating with a similar-coloured design of an arrow within a truncated triangle. The taller central boss and has an animal design. The flat tops are decorated with small squares of [millefiori](http://www.getty.edu/vow/AATFullDisplay?find=millefiori&logic=AND¬e=&english=N&prev_page=1&subjectid=300207352) enamel. Rivet-holes in the separately cast base-plate show that this cross was attached another surface. It is the only virtually intact example of its kind and period. [More](https://tinyurl.com/2rjm9wy7).