22 December 1809 : Richard Colt Hoare at Stourhead to William Cunnington -drawing of cross section of the little amphitheatre RCH queries the measurements given on the plan of the little amphitheatre. 'Crocker in his plan of this work makes it more round than oval - and by his plan of this work in South Wood he makes no entrance to it. Do you recollect if there is one or not? John Parker seems to increase in stupidity as he grows in years'. He has not given the location of the discoveries at Bonham. Was it 'in the ploughed field south of the house or any other - I mean a large long field on the very crest of the hill. This will be an important discovery if true as it establishes the idea of the Britons fixing themselves near rivers'.
'Mr Moore has sent me articles found with the skeleton at Durrington'.