132 Shells as evidence of the Migrations, 
face-urns as earrings ; further, several burnt and fractured 
specimens of Cyprea annulus were found in an urn from 
a stone-cist at Jakobsmiihle near Mewe, and in a face-urn 
at Rheinfeld near Carthaus ; Cypr@a moneta in a grave 
near Praust, a Cypre@a annulus, prepared as an amulet, at 
Seehof near Kulmsee, C. monefa as earrings on face-urns 
at Stangenwalde and at Wilschen in Berent district, as well 
asin burnt condition in a face-urn at Czapeln ; finally, 
several specimens of a Cyfrea, too badly damaged by fire 
for exact specific determination, occurred in a face-urn at 
Bockau on the river Radaune, West Prussia. 
In an essay by Dr. H. Conventz, of Danzig, on the 
introduction of cowries and related sea-shells as ornament 
in West Prussia in prehistoric times, further mention is 
made of discoveries, which he refers to the first century 
B.C., of Cyprea annulus in face-urns at Rheinfeld, in 
Carthaus district, Suckschin, in Higher Danzig district, 
and Jakobsmiihle, in Marienwerder district, as well as in 
an ordinary urn at Fronza,,in Marienwerder district ; and 
of Cyprea moneta in the ears of urns from Wilschen, Berent 
district, and Stangenwalde, Carthaus district, and in a face- 
urn from Praust, near Danzig ; further, of “ Roman times,” 
which corresponds to the rst century A.b., Cipr@a annulus 
attached to bronze-strip as a charm, found near Elbing 
and Seehof, in Briesen district ; finally, of the “ Arabic- 
norse epoch,” a perforated C. moneta on the neck of a 
skeleton in the grave-field near the Grutschno Burgwalle, 
in the Schwetzer district. 
Cowries of larger dimensions than Cypr@a moneta 
and C. annulus have been met with in pre-historic pit- 
dwellings and Saxon graves in our own country; in 
Franco-Merovingian graves in France; in the Gallo- 
*4 Correspondensblatt a. deutsch. Gesell. f. A. EB. u. Uy xxxiii, no. 2, 
1902, ( fide Schneider, of. crt., p. 115) 
