Ancient Britons over 4000 years ago made this gold cross.

Pagan Saxons 1500 years ago stamped their urns with the symbol.

Jesus was probably not crucified on a cross. It became a Christian symbol over 100 years after he died but remained a pagan symbol in Europe for centuries after that.

The moors of Denmark and North Germany preserve numerous Iron Age Germanic offerings. While bog bodies may be executed criminals (see Tacitus), and individual deposits of weapons and jewelry, hair and animals are thought to be offerings to the gods, other explanations are proposed for the deposits of vast numbers of bows, arrows, armour, swords, shields, horses and even boats.

One explanation is that because many Germanics from Scandinavia had to pass through this region in order to serve in the Roman army beyond the limes, therefore they raided en route and were sometimes killed by locals who offered the defeated forces to the bogs. Indeed many of the bog finds in Denmark are non-local.

The most important Germanic victim find in Germany is at Thorsberg bog. Offerings were sunk there for over 600 years. Most of the items are weapons and equipment from the beginning of the 3rd c. A.D. a time of heavy Roman influence on Germania.

Pictured are Thorsberg bog finds dated to 200's

My son saw a trident logo and asked me what it was and I said it was the weapon of the sea god (Neptune) but he interpreted this to mean Njord.

Then he went and made a trident out of hama beads and said "look, Daddy, it's Njord"

Interesting that he naturally took it to be symbol that represents the god himself rather than just his attribute. Then he made a mjolnir as well