# Brooch in the Form of a Six-Pointed Star

- Date: late 700s-early 800s
- Medium: gold with repoussé and filigree decoration; copper backplate
- Classification: Metalwork
- Dimensions: Diameter: 7.7 cm (3 1/16 in.)
- Culture: Frankish, early Carolingian, late 8th century - early 9th century
- Credit line: Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.344)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2009.344/2009.344_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Women used brooches like this to fasten their veils beneath the chin. Its rare form--a hexagram--suggests that it also functioned as a talisman or amulet to attract good luck and to ward off evil.