Subject: Re: Great House Farm, Llandough, Cardiff
From: Sion Buckler
Direction: sent
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:01 UTC
Institution: RCAHMW (Royal Commission)
Refs: none
Archive id: gm-1a082d3223b5d2c7
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Diolch Rhodri

Hwyl

Sion

On Tue, 8 Sept 2026, 13:13 NMR Enquiries,   wrote:

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> *From:* Sion Buckler  
> *Sent:* 08 September 2026 04:03
> *To:* NMR Enquiries  
> *Subject:* Great House Farm, Llandough, Cardiff
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> National Monuments Record / FOI Officer,
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> The published citations which identify RCAHMW as the source, and which
> state that the objects are at the National Museum of Wales, are:
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> 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 RCAHMW, December 1988 — “Unpublished Records relating to Great House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):
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>    “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).”
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>    Bibliography: RCAHMW 1988 = Unpublished Records relating to Great House
> Farm prepared by R F Suggett, December 1988.
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>    (GGAT, Land at Great House Farm, Llandough: An Archaeological
> Assessment, August 1990.)
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> 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:
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>    “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.”
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> 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.
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> Please therefore provide:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> D. Any later NMR / Coflein / correspondence file that confirms, corrects
> or withdraws that museum attribution.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Please supply electronic copies where held. If any item is already
> published on Coflein, a catalogue link and reference is enough.
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> Regards,
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> Sion Buckler
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