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The object is sub-circular with six triangular protrusions forming an edge and giving the brooch a star or six petalled flower shape shape. It has a small central semi-spherical solid boss. This is contained within two concentric circular borders which have been beaded by incised lines running across them. Outside of this border are three more concentric lines which curve to fill each triangular protrusion, forming arches with a central raised pellet dot inside. The reverse of the brooch is undecorated but has an integral D-shaped catch plate positioned near one edge this is folded over 90 degrees. On the opposite end of the brooch is a further D-shaped projection which is piereced by a circular hole. This is likely where a pin mechanism would have been threaded.

The brooch is a medium brown sometimes grey colour.

The brooch has a maximum diamater of xmm.

This brooch has one parallel recorded on the database which is extremely similar in form  LEIC-4C7D91 although the record for this mentions no further close parallels have been recorded. The discussion for LEIC-4C7D91  highlgiths how both the brooches shape are  similar to some medieval brooch forms, its decoration, and particularly their pin mechanisms, are very similar to late Saxon brooches, especially the 'lobed' Weetch type 25. These are mainly found in London, but there are a few recorded from elsewhere on the PAS database: LVPL1736, LIN-F70B24 and DOR-B64CD1. All are pointed-oval in shape and rather different to the Bruern example, which is perhaps closer to the circular 8-lobed examples from London. It is also similar to an item from the 11th-century Cheapside hoard, a lobed example but with different decoration. (Tessa Murdoch, 1991, Treasures and Trinkets Jewellery in London from pre-Roman times to the 1930s, Museum of London, pp. 155-6, Fig. 408).