Subject: Great House Farm, Llandough, Cardiff
From: Sion Buckler
Direction: sent
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2026 03:04 UTC
Institution: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Refs: none
Archive id: gm-1a07ef9bc9c8d2cd
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FOI Team,

This is a new request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. It is not
a repeat of FOI 2026-024 and it is not a comment on the internal review of
that request.

In your letter of 25 August 2026 (FOI 2026-024) you stated:

  “For completeness, our searches identified records relating to other
archaeological finds from Church Farm, Llandough and to other
archaeological discoveries recorded at Great House Farm (Ty Mawr),
Llandough. These records do not relate to, nor are they otherwise
associated with, the discovery described in your request. We have therefore
not considered them to fall within the scope of this request.”

I now request those records.

Please provide:

1. A schedule of every object, archive file, accession, loan, enquiry or
correspondence record that Amgueddfa Cymru holds which is indexed,
provenanced or otherwise recorded as from Great House Farm / Ty Mawr /
Llandough Farm, Llandough (Penarth / Vale of Glamorgan). For each entry:
accession or archive number, object or file title, date of acquisition or
creation, donor or excavator if recorded, and a one-line description.

2. The same schedule for Church Farm, Llandough, but only so far as the
records were retrieved in the 2026-024 search and can be identified without
a new full trawl.

3. Any accession, register entry, day-book, donations book or
correspondence in the collections of Amgueddfa Cymru or of its predecessor
Cardiff Museum / Welsh Museum of Natural History / National Museum of
Wales, dated 1875–1915, recording ironwork, armour, a visor, a lance, a
helmet, “armour from Llandough”, or a find from Great House / Llandough
Farm.

   Published sources which state that such ironwork is in the National
Museum, and which therefore make a search of predecessor registers
reasonable, are:

   • GGAT, Land at Great House Farm, Llandough: An Archaeological
Assessment, August 1990 (planning file 89/01396/OUT and 92/00671/RES): “it
is likely that some medieval ironwork which is held by the National Museum
of Wales was discovered under the rear wing c 1880 (RCAHMW 1988).”

   • Holbrook & Thomas, Medieval Archaeology 49 (2005), p. 70 n. 142:
“medieval ironwork was discovered under the rear wing of Great House Farm
c. 1880. It is now in the collections of the National Museums & Galleries
of Wales.”

   I note that the National Museum of Wales was not founded until 1907. If
a find of c.1880 entered a public collection in Cardiff it would have done
so through the earlier municipal museum. Please search those predecessor
accession registers, not only the post-1907 NMW database.

4. Any object record for Llandough ironwork that is not labelled “visor” or
“lance” but is or was associated with the farmhouse floor or rear wing /
dairy (the room identified on H. J. Thomas’s 1974 RCAHMW plan).

Please treat this as a request for recorded information only.

Regards,

Sion Buckler
[email redacted]