Picture of Vermand, Spear Mount Hexagram is courtesy of Yair DavidiyInterlaced star on a 4th century spear mount excavated in 1885 in Vermand cemetery, Northwest France. Exhibited in the New York Metropolitan Musuem.
Researchers think it belonged to barbarian mercenary soldiers employed by Romans.
You can read more on: The Vermand Treasure: A Testimony to the Presence of the Sarmatians in the Western Roman Empire by Deborah Schorsch
Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 21, 1986 (1986), pp. 17-40
doi:10.2307/1512823
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/17.192.143-.146
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