Account by William Cunnington of excavations in Wiltshire, with notes by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Bt., and others; Indexes of barrows prefixed to Vols. I-IV. With a few sketchplans and original letters:- Phillip Crocker to the Rev. W. Coxe, 1 June 1802, conc. Bratton Castle, Vol. II, fols. 92a, b; two letters from Charles Mayo and one from Cunnington, probably all to Hoare, conc. Marden, Vol. III, fols. 70b-h.
'William Cunnington's Account of Barrows &c for Sir Richard Hoare Bart.'
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- Reference
- GB 118 CUN
- Former Reference
- GB 118 SAL/MS/217
- Dates of Creation
- c. 1802-9
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- Five volumes. ff. v + 76 iv + 135 ii + 91 ii + 87 i + 4.
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Acquisition Information
From the Stourhead Library (Catalogue of the Library at Stourhead, Wilts. (1840), 419). Stourhead sale, Sotheby's, 30 July 1883, lot 464. Exhibited and presented by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, CB, PSA, 10 May 1894 (bookplate, Vol. I, fol. i). Proc., 2nd ser., 15 (1893-5), 177.
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