PROBABLY GERMAN, 15TH OR 16TH CENTURY AND LATER

The present cross, with its trefoil terminals and its segmented vertical and transverse elements held together with metal sleeves is comparable to a larger cross in the Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Zurich (see Hahnloser, loc. cit.). It follows in a long tradition of such trefoil crosses which first became popular in the late 13^th century.