This brooch was used to secure a cloak. Brooches of this type are found at a number of Early Medieval sites in western Britain and Ireland. A very similar brooch was discovered on Luce Sands, Wigtownshire in the 1960s and is now in the Dumfries museum collection.
A pennanular ring-brooch. The ring has a flattened oval section with flat sub-triangular terminals. The ring band is decorated with closely set radial grooves and the terminals have central punched dot decoration.