Subject: FOI: 2026-036 - Great House Farm, Llandough, Cardiff
From: Sion Buckler
Direction: sent
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:12 UTC
Institution: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Refs: none
Archive id: gm-1a086f0f8c32285b
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Diolch,

I myself am at the mercy of having to leave no stone unturned with this and
must explore all avenues because much has eventually come to light, but not
easily with other institutions.

I have encountered parties trying opt out of FOI even GDPR and SAR. Then
trying to refer me to other agencies before conducting a search. Then total
denial any result were found. Even lying to me. Then a search but negligent
and incompetently. Then I've actually had to show snippeted of my copies of
records they should hold. Then I've had to insist on internal reviews to be
sure of what was searched matched what I asked. I've even had conditional
acceptances whereby even my last employer, of my last of my 22 years in
Oath, the Vale of Glamorgan Council, asked for what I had before they'd
show me what they had. Or other oddities.

I know with what happened in the last century with our farmhouse involved a
lot of scandle, in order to disposses us of our country treasure 800 year
old home, which we owned, before being removed by force from the land we
still own, and demolishing our home since 1667 to develop 20 houses in its
place, which the entire community petitioned when the plan was just 13
houses, and on a roman villa and monestry and medieval burial site, which
authories knew full well was there. I'm just trying to get answers for my
family and to understand what exactly happened in a fact find and on an
evidence basis. But the Llandough councillors refusal to respond and the
non response from MPs is a further outrage on what is already a very
sensitive subject. My surviving family who didn't die in mysterious ways at
convenient times during all this, have been too terrified to speak up or
out again about any of this, living like hostages under the occupying
British, suffering in silence for the last 38 straight years. And the land
registry responses also raise more questions. Many local authorities take
the maximum time to respond at each interval. Our family are having to
re-live a horrendous ordeal, to even say anything about our home and lands
true history and herritage and the defective title upon which 20 family
homes now exist.

The narrative and public records are all very wrong and misleading and
deceiving. I have corroborating family testimony confirming records were
removed/ stolen and not just from our home but the public library. Many
institutions report gaps in records and cannot account for destroyed/
missing records.

So I thank you in advance for your co-operation in this matter. I believe a
collective effort will mean a lot should the Senedd authorise a public
enquiry or my family get justice. But this was and still is a matter of
national public interest.

Marconi was staying with us at our home there, in 1897, while conducting
the successful experiment of radio at Lavernock Point.  Meanwhile Cardiff
Council refuse to even put the inventors name on the statue of the radio at
Cardiff Bay because Cardiff is now a city of sanctuary and Marconi was
right wing politically. And alledgedly an anti semite, but my research from
that also suggests that wasn't the case. I'm actually having to depend on
Germanies spy's accounts of what happened between my family and Marconi due
to the Brit'ish States concealment and rewriting of history.

We should remember, especially as Welsh under British occupancy and rule,
that the British Establishment invented concentration work camps. And is
renowned for ethnically cleansing entire races of indigenous. What my
family and our history and herritage and culture and language were
subjected to for the last century, was nothing short of that.

I enclose for your interest ITV footage, unaired/ gatekept, of our home
being looted of all our furniture we got from Cardiff Castle. While my baby
sister was made to watch. It's believed the BP Bailiffs were in fact
undercover soldiers.

The complete story and chronology has not been told. It appears to begin
with Cedwyn the giant/ St Cedwyn. A 2,200 year old iron age round house.

The 1820 church wasn't the first built. And I find it highly suspect CADW
rejected our 800 year old county treasure home next door, from receiving
Grade II listing status so it couldn't be demolished, whereas the church,
also rebuilt again in the 1840's I believe, was awarded Grade II in 1989.

There's not even a park bench plaque to Marconi there or a tourist
information board for the rich history and herritage. Church View Close,
Llandough constitutes a terrorist cell/ network/ concentration work camp.
This should be an outrage to any historian. Which isn't my field, I'm just
a military cyber warfare professional.

Regards,

Sion


On Tue, 8 Sept 2026, 10:14 FOI Requests, <[email redacted]>
wrote:

> Dear Mr Buckler
>
>
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> Thank you for your email.
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> I note your position and can confirm that FOI:2026-032 will remain open
> and will be processed separately from FOI:2026-036.
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> 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.
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>
>
> However, I note that you wish the requests to remain separate and we will
> proceed on that basis.
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> Also, to confirm, the internal review of FOI:2026-024 will continue
> independently.
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> Cofion cynnes,
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> *FOI Team*
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> [email redacted] <[email redacted]>
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> amgueddfa.cymru | museum.wales
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>
>
> *Rhif elusen* | Charity number 525774
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> *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
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> This email comes from outside the organisation.
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> Do not click links or open attachments unless it is an email you expected
> to receive.
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> FOI Team,
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> Thank you for your email concerning FOI:2026-036.
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> I do not agree that FOI:2026-032 should be closed or treated as replaced.
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> The three matters are distinct and should remain so.
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> Internal review of FOI 2026-024
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> 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.
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> FOI 2026-032 (your letter of 26 August 2026; also written by you as FOI
> 2026-32)
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> 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.
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>
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> 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:
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> 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;
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> the Church Farm schedule only so far as already retrieved in the 2026-024
> search, and without a new full trawl;
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> 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;
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> object records for Llandough ironwork not labelled “visor” or “lance” but
> associated with the farmhouse floor or rear wing / dairy.
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> If it assists you administratively, I have no objection to a single letter
> that answers both 2026-032 and 2026-036, provided that:
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> a. FOI 2026-032 is not closed, withdrawn or treated as superseded;
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> 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);
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> c. the additional limbs of 2026-036 remain live and are answered on the
> 2026-036 timescale;
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> d. the two requests are not aggregated so as to refuse either under
> section 12;
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> e. the internal review of FOI 2026-024 continues independently.
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> 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.
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> Please confirm that FOI 2026-032 remains open on the terms above.
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> Regards,
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> Sion Buckler
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> [email redacted]
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> On Tue, 8 Sept 2026, 06:08 FOI Requests, <[email redacted]>
> wrote:
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> Dear Mr Buckler
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> Thank you for your email.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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,
>
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>
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>
> *FOI Team*
>
> [email redacted] <[email redacted]>
>
> amgueddfa.cymru | museum.wales
>
>
>
> *Rhif elusen* | Charity number 525774
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>
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> *From:* Sion Buckler <[email redacted]>
> *Sent:* 08 September 2026 04:05
> *To:* FOI Requests <[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:
>
>
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>   “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.”
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> I now request those records.
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> Please provide:
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> 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.
>
>
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> 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.
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>
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> 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.
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>    Published sources which state that such ironwork is in the National
> Museum, and which therefore make a search of predecessor registers
> reasonable, are:
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>    • 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).”
>
>
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>    • 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.”
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>
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>    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.
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>
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> 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).
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> Please treat this as a request for recorded information only.
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> Regards,
>
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> Sion Buckler
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> [email redacted]
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