134 S/icIIs as evidence of the Mii:;rations. 



not given. In the same footnote mention is made of the 

 discovery of a large Cvprcsn in an old German grave at 

 Entibilhl, and of an Indian Ocean Tiitoniitvi';'^ filled with 

 worked flints at Brunswick. 



A further discover)- of a shell from the Indian Ocean, 

 Ovulnjii ovum, closely akin to the cowries, was made in a 

 Gothland ic tomb. This specimen had a hole at one end 

 in which was still fixed a little ring of bronze wire.'-' 



In Crete, black cowries, probabl}' dark forms of 

 Cyprcea paniJicrina, were found in excavating the rooms 

 of Mycenaean houses." 



In a paper on " Cave Explorations at Gibraltar in 

 September, igio,"''^ Dr. W. L. H. Duckworth records the 

 discovery of a Mediterranean cowrv, Cypreca pyrnvi, in 

 excavating Cave S. The specimen is lemarkable on 

 account of an artificial perforation at one end, as if for 

 suspension as an amulet. On the evidence of the human 

 remains and the potter)- found, the cave is assigned to 

 the Neolithic period. In the same cave were found 

 specimens of Purpura hcvuiastovia with the apical parts 

 fractured in a curious manner, suggesting that the mollusc 

 had been used for the preparation of its distinctive 

 product, the Tyrian Purple.'" 



A perforated specimen of Cyprica pyruni is recorded 

 b)- Lartet and Christy'"' from La Madelaine cave, Perigord, 

 along with other perforated shells and teeth of animals, 

 but in this case the cowrx' is said to be a fossil, probably 



'^ ? Iritoii, the shell employed a.- a trumpet in many p!;\ce.^. 



"•- Mans Hildebrand, " The IndusUial Ails of Scandinavia,'' (South 

 Kensington Museum Art Handbook), 1882, p. 40. 



- ■ Ann. Brit. Sch. Athens, ix. (1902-3), pp. 291 and 335. 



^^ Joiirn. Roy. Aiithrop. lust., \\\.. 191 1, p. 362, pi. xl., lig. 4, 5. 



'^■' See chapter i. 



•'•^ " Reliqui;v Aqnitanica,'" London, 1S75, P- 4^ (Description of the 

 Plates), pi. v., fig. 15. 



