Subject: RE: FOI: 2026-036 - Great House Farm, Llandough, Cardiff From: FOI Requests Direction: received Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:14 UTC Institution: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales Refs: none Archive id: gm-1a08127fe562a418 ------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Mr Buckler Thank you for your email. I note your position and can confirm that FOI:2026-032 will remain open and will be processed separately from FOI:2026-036. In all honesty, my suggestion that FOI:2026-036 replace FOI:2026-032 was not made with a view to aggregating the requests or considering the application of a section 12 exemption. It was intended as an administrative measure to avoid duplication of work and correspondence for a small collections team where two requests cover substantially the same subject matter. However, I note that you wish the requests to remain separate and we will proceed on that basis. Also, to confirm, the internal review of FOI:2026-024 will continue independently. Cofion cynnes, [A picture containing text, tableware, plate, dishware Description automatically generated] FOI Team [cid:image003.png@01DD3F9B.8F47A1A0] [email redacted]<[email redacted]> amgueddfa.cymru | museum.wales Rhif elusen | Charity number 525774 From: Sion Buckler <[email redacted]> Sent: 08 September 2026 13:17 To: FOI Requests <[email redacted]> Subject: Re: FOI: 2026-036 - Great House Farm, Llandough, Cardiff This email comes from outside the organisation. Do not click links or open attachments unless it is an email you expected to receive. FOI Team, Thank you for your email concerning FOI:2026-036. I do not agree that FOI:2026-032 should be closed or treated as replaced. The three matters are distinct and should remain so. Internal review of FOI 2026-024 This remains a review of how the original 27 July request was interpreted and searched. I confirm it is separate. Nothing in FOI:2026-036 is a comment on that review. FOI 2026-032 (your letter of 26 August 2026; also written by you as FOI 2026-32) This is the request you yourselves extracted from my 26 August email. Its subject is the records your searches for FOI 2026-024 had already identified: the "other archaeological discoveries recorded at Great House Farm (Ty Mawr), Llandough" and the Church Farm, Llandough finds which you excluded from 2026-024 as out of scope. You registered that as a new request and gave a response date of 23 September 2026. That request has not been withdrawn. Those records have already been located. They do not require a new collection-wide trawl. FOI:2026-036 (my email of 8 September 2026). This is a new request. It is not a restatement of 2026-032. It has additional limbs: a schedule of every object, archive file, accession, loan, enquiry or correspondence record indexed, provenanced or otherwise recorded as from Great House Farm / Ty Mawr / Llandough Farm; the Church Farm schedule only so far as already retrieved in the 2026-024 search, and without a new full trawl; predecessor accession, register, day-book, donations-book and correspondence searches for 1875-1915 (Cardiff Museum / Welsh Museum of Natural History / National Museum of Wales) for ironwork, armour, visor, lance, helmet, "armour from Llandough", or a find from Great House / Llandough Farm; object records for Llandough ironwork not labelled "visor" or "lance" but associated with the farmhouse floor or rear wing / dairy. If it assists you administratively, I have no objection to a single letter that answers both 2026-032 and 2026-036, provided that: a. FOI 2026-032 is not closed, withdrawn or treated as superseded; b. the records already identified in the 2026-024 search are scheduled and disclosed as a discrete part of that letter, and that part is provided by the date you gave for 2026-032 (23 September 2026); c. the additional limbs of 2026-036 remain live and are answered on the 2026-036 timescale; d. the two requests are not aggregated so as to refuse either under section 12; e. the internal review of FOI 2026-024 continues independently. The purpose of 2026-036 was to obtain the records you had already found and set aside, together with the predecessor-register and full-site schedule work that 2026-024 did not cover. It was not an invitation to extinguish 2026-032 or to restart the clock on material already retrieved. Please confirm that FOI 2026-032 remains open on the terms above. Regards, Sion Buckler [email redacted]<[email redacted]> On Tue, 8 Sept 2026, 06:08 FOI Requests, <[email redacted]<[email redacted]>> wrote: Dear Mr Buckler Thank you for your email. I note that this request covers the same subject matter as FOI:2026-032 and extends the scope of the information requested in that case. In order to avoid duplication and ensure that we provide a single, comprehensive response, our intention is to treat FOI:2026-036 as replacing FOI:2026-032 and to close FOI:2026-032 accordingly. Unless we hear from you to the contrary within the next few working days, we will proceed on that basis and respond to the broader request contained in FOI:2026-036. Please note that your request for an internal review of FOI:2026-024 remains a separate matter and will continue to be considered independently. Cofion cynnes, [A picture containing text, tableware, plate, dishware Description automatically generated] FOI Team [https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=1b3dc17d38&attid=0.3&th=1a080e71d83376c5&view=fimg&fur=ip&rm=1a080e71d83376c5&sz=w1600-h1000&attbid=ANGjdJ_E7YWjX8HausrpKD0FtVJqhGs-ffaR93kGuLiVVs6mZueMRTHSsJFQekY8murFYHqpjVdZZ5yPdnn1NQZtSQqjA7Cu1C7XGAWK1Gw-zFRVRhOjiaIcsddIbqM&disp=emb&realattid&zw] [email redacted]<[email redacted]> amgueddfa.cymru | museum.wales Rhif elusen | Charity number 525774 From: Sion Buckler <[email redacted]<[email redacted]>> Sent: 08 September 2026 04:05 To: FOI Requests <[email redacted]<[email redacted]>> Subject: ALLANOL/EXTERNAL - Great House Farm, Llandough, Cardiff This email comes from outside the organisation. Do not click links or open attachments unless it is an email you expected to receive. 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]<[email redacted]>