io JACKSON, Use of Cowry-shells for Currency, Amulets, etc. 



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

 specimens of Cyprcea annulus were found in an urn from 

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

 at Rheinfeld near Carthaus ; Cyprcea moneta in a grave 

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

 Seehof near Kulmsee, C moneta as earrings on face-urns 

 at Stangenwalde and at Wilschen in Berent district, as well 

 as in burnt condition in a face-urn at Czapeln ; finally, 

 several specimens of a Cyprcea, 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,' 24 further mention is 

 made of discoveries, which he refers to the first century 

 B.C , of Cyprcea 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 Cyprcea 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 ist century A.D., Cyprcea 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 Cjp/a?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- 



-* Correspcmdmzblatt d. deutsch. Gesell.f. A. E. u. U., xxxiii. no. 2, 

 1902, {fide Schneider, op. cit., \>. 115) 



