Photograph © Ulster Museum
Cross of a Knight of Santiago
Unknown Artist
- Art Funded
- 1988
- Dimensions
- 4.4 cm
- Vendor
- Salvors of the Galleas Girona.
Cross of the Knight of Santiago, recovered from the wreck-site of the Armada galleass Girona which sank off Lacada Point, Co Antrim, in 1588.
Believed to have belonged to the Commander in Chief Don Alonso.
Provenance
Belonged to Don Alonso Martinez de Leiva; found by Salvors of the Galleas Girona (Portrush Sub-Aqua Club). Discovered in 1967.