There once many men, glad-minded and gold-bright,
adorned in gleaming, proud and wine-flushed, shone in war-tackle;
There one could look upon treasure, upon silver, upon ornate jewelry,
upon prosperity, upon possession, upon precious stones,
upon the illustrious city of the broad realm.

The placeholder will probably remain a placeholder because I got nothing. I’m actually at home this weekend and playing catch up with everyone and everything outside of work. The coffee is a little sweeter from my desk in the fall.

The missing cross from the wreck of the San Pedro (1596) is a mystery like the cross of St. Edward the Confessor. It disappeared just before Queen Elizabeth II visited Bermuda in 1975.

Related
(1) Queen’s 1975 visit reveals a much changed Bermuda (Royal Gazette)

“The 1975 visit was marred by the disappearance of the famed “Tucker Cross” from the San Pedro wreck, believed to have been lost on the reefs in 1594 and recovered by diver and treasure hunter Teddy Tucker in 1955.

Mr. Tucker had sold the cross to the Bermuda Government in 1959 and it was to be the showcase of the new Maritime Museum.

Just hours before the Queen was to open the museum, it was discovered that the cross had been replaced by a fake, prompting an international investigation. The real cross has never been recovered.”

(2) Reliquary Cross (The Met)

(3) The corner of Church and Queen in Hamilton, Bermuda