The following are a few of the localities in which these vases have occurred most abundantly:—Braquemont, Martin Eglise, Bouteilles, where over 100 vases occurred, Roux Mesnil, Neuchatel, etc. It may be interesting to indicate the range in time of the custom, by a few instances, with well-defined dates. In the coffin of Urson, Abbot of Jumieges, who died in 1127, two pierced vases were found. At Leure, near Havre, among many interments with similar vases, there was one with an inscribed slab identifying it as that of Pierre Berenguier (1270–1290). In the stone coffin there were six of these pierced vases. The stone coffin of Simon de Goucans, Bishop of Amiens, who died in 1325, contained three vases, two being placed at the shoulders and one at the feet, all pierced with holes and partly filled with charcoal. In the coffin of John Count Dunois, who died in 1468, seven vases occurred. In that of Francis Longueville, who died in 1491, twelve pierced vases with charcoal were ranged along the sides of the coffin. On the right side of the wooden coffin of the Abbé François d’Orignai, who died in 1483, two pierced vases were found. In the leaden coffin of Agnes of Savoy, Duchess of Dunois, who died in 1508, there were four vases of common red unglazed ware containing charcoal. The latest precise date is furnished by an interment in the graveyard of the Benedictine monastery at Mans. The coffin, on which the inscription was still legible, CHARLOTTE LE NORMANT DE BEAUMONT, DECEDE LE 12 AVRIL 1688, contained a vase with charcoal. This curious and little known custom is fully illustrated in the Abbé Cochet’s works, _La Normandie Souterraine_, 2d edition, Paris 1855, and its sequel _Sepultures Gauloises, Romaines, Franques et Normandes_, Paris 1857. See also _Bulletin Monumental_, vol. xxii. pp. 329–364, 425–447; vol. xxv. pp. 103–132, 273–311; _Mémoires de la Société des Antiquaires de Normandie_, vol. xxii. pp. 11, 12, 294–298, vol. xxiv. p. 5–8; _Archæologia_, vol. xxxv. p. 233, vol. xxxvii. p. 399, vol. xxxviii. p. 66, vol. xxxix. p. 117; _Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London_, 1855, pp. 206, 290; _Revue de l’art Chretien_, vol. ii. (1858), p. 420; De Caumont, _Cours d’Antiquites Monumentales_, vol. vi. p. 316; A. Murcier, _La Sepulture Chretienne en France_, p. 159–164. Footnote 14: This is a frequently-occurring characteristic of the vessels partially filled with charcoal found in graves of the Carlovingian period and down to the seventeenth century in France. They are usually pierced with holes irregularly placed. In some cases the holes have been made when the clay was soft. In others the vessels have been pierced by holes driven through their sides after they were fired, as if by a nail or other pointed instrument. Footnote 15: