Subject: RE: FOI - 2026-032 - Great House Farm, Llandough
From: FOI Requests
Direction: received
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2026 07:17 UTC
Institution: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Refs: none
Archive id: gm-1a0e6e0a094fc1cd
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Apologies, regarding FOI: 2026-036, we aim to provide a response by 6th October.

Cofion cynnes,

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From: FOI Requests  
Sent: 28 September 2026 08:13
To: Sion Buckler  
Cc: FOI Requests  
Subject: RE: FOI - 2026-032 - Great House Farm, Llandough

Mr Buckler

Thank you for your email.

Just to clarify, our collections management system records items individually and does not group records together based on similar place names. We are not aware of any recorded information showing that records for Great House Farm, Llandough (near Cowbridge) or Great House Farm, Llandow were ever catalogued or treated within the collections system as relating to Great House Farm, Llandough (near Penarth/Cardiff).   The references to similarly named locations arose from our searches for information relevant to your request, rather than from any overlap within the collections records themselves.

In relation to item 7 of your email of 26 August, we do not hold any separate recorded information explaining the basis on which staff concluded that the identified records were unrelated to the reported nineteenth-century discovery. That conclusion was reached through staff assessment of the available records, and no further recorded information is held.

I hope this helps clarify our position.

Cofion cynnes,

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From: Sion Buckler  >
Sent: 27 September 2026 05:16
To: FOI Requests  >
Subject: RE: FOI - 2026-032 - Great House Farm, Llandough


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Dear FOI Team,

FOI 2026-032

Diolch yn fawr. Thank you for the records, the descriptors and the published references. This is a thorough response and it is genuinely useful.

One correction of place is required.

The request concerns Great House Farm (Tŷ Mawr), Llandough near Penarth / Cardiff. Among the disclosed PAS material is at least one record for a different property of the same name: Great House Farm, Llandough near Cowbridge (including 2022.18.1, NGR SS9934672805, medieval lead Romanesque mount). There is also a Great House farm entry at Llandow. Those are not the site named in the request. Two Llandoughs, and more than one Great House Farm, sit in the same county. The homonym is easy to miss and material.

Please treat the Cowbridge / Llandow entries as out of scope for this request unless you hold recorded information showing they were, at any time, indexed, cited, or treated as if they related to Great House Farm, Llandough (Penarth / Cardiff). If any such cross-attribution exists in historic files, catalogues, correspondence, or search notes, that recorded information is within scope and I ask that it be disclosed.

If labels or findspot fields are now amended to distinguish the two farms, please do not overwrite the original wording without retaining the prior form. I ask that any correction be recorded as a dated amendment, with the earlier descriptor preserved, so the sequence of how the records stood when searches were first run remains inspectable. Please do not destroy, weed, or replace the versions as disclosed on 22 September 2026.

One small point from my email of 26 August also remains. As item 7 I asked for any recorded information showing the basis on which the Museum concluded that the identified records were unrelated to the reported nineteenth-century discovery. If that conclusion was reached by staff judgement and not written down, please simply confirm that no recorded information is held on that point. I am not asking for a new opinion.

Could you also confirm the date by which you expect to respond to FOI 2026-036?

Cofion,

Sion Buckler
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