Use of Cowry-shells for Currency, Amutlets, etc. 133 
Roman necropolis of Trion, at Lyons ; and in Pompeii, as 
weil as in other places. 
The complete outer lip of Cyprea tegris, a species 
occurring in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea, has been 
recorded by J. RK. le B. Tomlin, from a pre-historic pit- 
dwelling at St. Mary Bourne, Hants.” The same hand- 
some species is recorded by M. Locard from the Gallo- 
Roman necropolis of Trion, and by Monterosato from 
Pompei.” Cyprea pantherina, a Red Sea shell, has been 
found in Saxon women’s graves, excavated on Kingston 
Down, and Sibertswold Down, in Kent,” and ina grave 
near Wingham, Kent.* It has also been recorded (under 
the name Cyfr@a vinosa) by Dr. Ph. Dautzenburg from the 
Franco-Merovingian necropolis of Nesles-lez-Verlincthun 
(Canton de Samer),” Dr. Dautzenburg also refers in the 
same paper to a record by M.1l’Abbeé Henri Debout of the 
presence of this shell (erroneously referred to C. arabica) 
in a sepulchre at Tardinghen; and from Dr. Tiberi’s 
Memoir on the shells met with in the excavations at 
Pompeii,” we learn that many examples of this species 
were found, and that the shell in question was an amulet 
which the women carried in order to prevent sterility. 
In a footnote in Dr. Schneider’s paper (of. cz¢., p. 116), 
reference is made to a description, by Dr. Koehl, of 
Merovingian graves at Weisoppenheim, near Worms, 
where cowries were found alongside the bodies of several 
women, either hanging from a girdle, or sewn to their 
dresses. Unfortunately, the specific name of the shell is 
25 Journal of Conchology, vol. 13, 1912, p. 25U. 
26 fide Tomlin, of. céz. 
‘aussett’s ** Inventorium Sepulchrale,”’ 1856, pp. 68, 92 & 133. (See 
also J. W. Jackson, Journ. of Conch., vol. 13, 1912, p. 307, for discussion 
of species). 
2s ** Archzeologia,” vol. 30, p. 551. 
29 Journ. de Conchyliologie, vol. liv., 1906, p. 260, figs. I & 2. 
39 ** fe Conchiglie Pompeiane,” Napoli, 1879. 
