132 Shells cu evidence of the Migrations. 



face-urns as earrings ; further, several burnt and fractured 

 specimens of Cypnea aiiiiitlns were found in an urn from 

 a stone-cist at Jakobsmiihle near Mewe, and in a face-urn 

 at Rheinfeld near Carthaus ; Cyprcea vioneta in a grave 

 near Praust, a Cyprcea annnliis, prepared as an amulet, at 

 Seehof near Kulmsee, C. vioneta as earrings on face-urns 

 at Stangenwalde and at Wilschen in Berent district, as well 

 as in burnt condition in a face-urn a1? Czapeln ; final!}-, 

 several specimens of a Cypnea, too badly damaged b}' 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 Cyprcea anmilus 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 Cyprcea nioieta 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 ist century A.D., Cyprcea annnlus 

 attached to bronze-strip as a charm, found near Elbing 

 and Seehof, in Briesen district ; finall}-, of the " Arabic- 

 norse epoch," a perforated C. vioneta on the neck of a 

 skeleton in the grave-field near the Grutschuo Burgwiille, 

 in the Schwetzer district. 



Cowries of larger dimensions than Cyprcea nwneta 

 and C. annnlus have been met with in pre-historic pit- 

 dwellings and Saxon graves in our own countr}-; in 

 Franco-Merovingian graves in P^rance ; in the Gallo- 



-'* Correspondenzblatl d. deiilsch. Gesell.f. A. E. 11. U., xxxiii. no. 2, 

 1902, {/iiff Schneider, op. cit., y. 115) 



