255 
bol is found very frequently in the coats of arms of the more ancient 
families in those districts in which these fossil bodies have been long 
known to abound. This circumstance has been particularly noticed 
by Dugdale, with respect to the family of the Shuckboroughs, for a 
knowledge of which I am indebted to that assiduous antiquary Mr. 
Thomas Fisher, to whom we are indebted for the publication, with 
several other interesting pieces, of a series of ancient paintings dis- 
covered in the Chapel of the Trinity, at Stratford-upon-Avon, in War- 
wickshire. 
^hucfetjorouffh* 
“ This family,” Dugdale observes, “ do bear for their arms, Sable, 
a Cheveron betwixt three mullets argent ; relating, as Tis observable, to 
those little stones called Astroites, which are very like a mullet, and 
are frequently found in the plowed fields hereabouts.”* 
The calcareous masses of the remains of this animal will, in general, 
bear a very good polish, and then present a very pleasing appearance, 
from the delicate variegation of the marble by the slight traces of 
the animal remains : every part being so thickly beset with these 
* The Antiquities of Warwickshire illustrated, P. 219. 
