Allen I was unable to find a close match however crosses seemed to be popular definitely. I just did a quick look so cant say there wasnt a close match just I didnt find it. Might be a good starting point to hunt it down, figure out . The bottom link has some pics of artifacts from the Girona. Good hunting.
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http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/pirates/girona.html
The Girona was a large galleass, built in Naples and captained by Fabricio Spinola of Genoa. She was among the remnants of the fleet attempting to get back to Spain, having been forced to skirt the coasts of Scotland and Ireland. On board the galleass were 1,300 men ? nearly three times the number she was designed to carry, as she had picked up survivors from two other shipwrecks, including Don Alonso Martinez de Leiva, commander-designate of the fleet. On the morning of 26 October 1588, heavily overladen and battered by ferocious storms off the northern Irish coast, the Girona sank near the Giant's Causeway, with the loss of all but five souls.
A dazzling amount of Renaissance jewellery and coins was recovered from the site, the personal effects of the officers on board and those rescued from the other two ships. These young nobles, from some of the wealthiest families in Spain, would have been carrying some of their personal fortunes in coinage.
Among the treasures found were religious medals and crosses belonging to all ranks, a heavy gold ring bearing the initials 'IHS', undoubtedly worn by one of the Jesuit priests accompanying the fleet, and a beautifully intricate Agnus Dei reliquary in the form of a little golden book with a depiction of St John the Baptist on the cover.
Several crosses of orders of chivalry were also found ? a cross of a Knight of Alcantara, a cross of a Knight of St John of Jerusalem and, from a Knight of Santiago de Compostela, a beautiful gold and red enamelled cross that belonged to de Leiva himself.
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