The Folded Cross., from the Staffordshire Hoard. The Staffordshire Hoard is a collection of Anglo-Saxon. Discovered in a field near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, England, in 2009. it consists of over 3, 500 items, dated to the 7th or 8th centuries, placing the origin of the items in the time of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia. Before it was put in the hoard, the cross was intentionally dismantled. The mounts fixed to it were prised off and all but two of the garnets set in them were removed.