Swastika (Germanic Iron Age)

In older literature, the symbol is known variously as gammadion, fylfot, crux gothica, flanged thwarts, or angled cross.

[3] Medallions and bracteates featuring swastikas were issued in Central Europe of late antiquity by the Etruscans[citation needed].

The early Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo, England, contained numerous items bearing the swastika, now housed in the collection of the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

[7] Davidson cites "many examples" of the swastika symbol from Anglo-Saxon graves of the pagan period, with particular prominence on cremation urns from the cemeteries of East Anglia.

[7] Some of the swastikas on the items, on display at the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, are depicted with such care and art that, according to Davidson, it must have possessed special significance as a funerary symbol.

A comb with a sauwastika found in Nydam Mose in Denmark, dating to the 3rd or 4th century CE.
Two swastikas and two sauwastikas in an ornament of a bucket found with the Oseberg ship (ca. AD 800)
The swastika on the Snoldelev Stone , Denmark (9th century)
The Sæbø sword with runes and a swastika symbol on one side of the blade.
Swastikas found on archaeological artefacts of the Iron Age used in Nazi propaganda : depiction of a swastika-bearing funerary urn of the Przeworsk culture ( Sarmatia now Poland 2nd century) on a ceramic medallion issued by the Bund Deutscher Osten .
An early Anglo-Saxon (5th to 6th century) cinerary urn with swastika motifs, found at North Elmham , Norfolk (now in the British Museum )