\"Winged\" roman spear blades?

[jho]

I do not know how far back the use of winged hunting spears (in German „Saufeder“) goes, but they appear to be common finds in Roman upper class graves in Gaul and Germania beginning with the early 4th century AD (see Renate Pirling, Margareta Siepen, Die Funde aus den römischen Gräbern von Krefeld-Gellep, Katalog der Gräber 6348-6361, 2006, pp. 400). It appears that some are richly decorated with the wings sculpted as animal heads and they are therefore considered more as status symbols than weapons for actual use.