Subject: RE: Great House Farm, Llandough, Cardiff From: NMR Enquiries Direction: received Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:13 UTC Institution: RCAHMW (Royal Commission) Refs: none Archive id: gm-1a081cc2fcfedcab ------------------------------------------------------------ Good afternoon. Thank you for your request. We will respond to your enquiry within twenty working days. Kind regards, Rhodri Lewis NMR Enquiries Ymholiadau Cyhoeddus I Public Enquiries Ffordd Penglais | Penglais Road, Aberystwyth, [postcode redacted] [phone redacted] [email redacted] | [email redacted] www.cbhc.gov.uk | www.rcahmw.gov.uk Noddir gan Lywodraeth Cymru | Sponsored by Welsh Government Rydym yn croesawu gohebiaeth yn Gymraeg a Saesneg. Ni fydd gohebu yn Gymraeg yn peri oedi. We welcome correspondence in Welsh and English. Corresponding in Welsh will not lead to any delay. 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Thank you. ​ From: Sion Buckler <[email redacted]> Sent: 08 September 2026 04:03 To: NMR Enquiries <[email redacted]> Subject: Great House Farm, Llandough, Cardiff National Monuments Record / FOI Officer, This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and, so far as the records concern the historic environment, the Environmental Information Regulations 2004. I request copies of recorded information held by RCAHMW / the National Monuments Record of Wales relating to a reported discovery of ironwork or “armour” under the rear wing of Great House Farm (Ty Mawr), Llandough, Vale of Glamorgan (approx. ST 1681 7331; SMR / HER GGAT02038s; NMR NPRN associated with Great House Farm). The published citations which identify RCAHMW as the source, and which state that the objects are at the National Museum of Wales, are: 1. RCAHMW, December 1988 — “Unpublished Records relating to Great House Farm prepared by R F Suggett, December 1988.” This is the source cited in the Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust assessment lodged on planning application 89/01396/OUT (and carried into 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).” Bibliography: RCAHMW 1988 = Unpublished Records relating to Great House Farm prepared by R F Suggett, December 1988. (GGAT, Land at Great House Farm, Llandough: An Archaeological Assessment, August 1990.) 2. The same statement is repeated in Holbrook & Thomas, “An Early-medieval Monastic Cemetery at Llandough, Glamorgan”, Medieval Archaeology 49 (2005), p. 70 n. 142: “Mention should also be made of the fact that 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.” 3. The Heneb / Archwilio HER entry for Great House Farm (GGAT02038s) records armour / medieval ironwork found under the rear-wing floor c.1880 and attributes the note to RCAHMW. Please therefore provide: A. The full text of R F Suggett’s December 1988 unpublished records relating to Great House Farm, including every page or card that mentions ironwork, armour, a visor, a lance, a helmet, a burial, a soldier, a horse, a museum, or a find under the floor or rear wing / dairy. B. Any earlier NMR / RCAHMW survey notes, correspondence or drawings that Suggett was using (including H. J. Thomas’s 1974 survey of the house, updated December 1988), insofar as they mention the c.1880 find or the destination of the objects. C. Any record of the source of Suggett’s statement that the ironwork “is held by the National Museum of Wales” — for example a letter, accession note, conversation record, or museum catalogue reference. D. Any later NMR / Coflein / correspondence file that confirms, corrects or withdraws that museum attribution. E. File references, NPRNs and any copy letters sent to or received from the National Museum of Wales / Amgueddfa Cymru, GGAT, Cadw or the Vale of Glamorgan concerning this find. I am not asking for advice or for a new interpretation. I am asking for the recorded information that underpins the 1988 sentence now cited as fact in the planning file and in Medieval Archaeology. Please supply electronic copies where held. If any item is already published on Coflein, a catalogue link and reference is enough. Regards, Sion Buckler [email redacted]<[email redacted]>