Subject: FW: 2026-036- Great House Farm, Llandough, Cardiff From: FOI Requests Direction: received Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:04 UTC Institution: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales Refs: none Archive id: gm-1a10c2ac609d288e ------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Mr Buckler Thank you for your request. Amgueddfa Cymru has previously responded to requests concerning Great House Farm / Ty Mawr / Llandough Farm, Llandough, including FOI 2026-024 and FOI 2026-032. In responding to the present request, further enquiries were undertaken with Archaeology, Industry and Social History Collections. These enquiries built upon the searches already undertaken for the earlier requests. Collections staff reviewed records identified through references to Great House Farm, Ty Mawr and Llandough Farm, Llandough (Vale of Glamorgan), together with records returned through associated place-name searches. Records relating to the wider Llandough area, to other locations sharing the name "Llandough", or to other properties bearing the name "Great House Farm" were reviewed but were not considered to relate to the location specified in your request. Question 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). The schedules provided in response to FOI 2026-032 contained the records previously identified as relating to the location specified in your request. The additional enquiries undertaken for this request identified the following records: Reference Title Date Description Ref 13.2 Waterwheel from Llandough Farm Collected 1 April 1979 Waterwheel collected from Llandough Farm. Museum records state that the item was donated by Wales and West Housing Association in connection with development of the site. The item was never formally accessioned and has subsequently been deaccessioned. MS 3360/3 Particulars, Conditions and Plans of the Sale of Nine Well-Known Farms in the Vale of Glamorgan forming part of the Llandough Estate 1924 Photostat copy. Collections staff identified a page relating to Great House Farm within the document. Provided in FOI: 2026-032 No further records relating specifically to Great House Farm / Ty Mawr / Llandough Farm, Llandough were identified. Question 2 The same schedule for Church Farm, Llandough, but only insofar as records were retrieved during the searches undertaken for FOI 2026-024 and can be identified without a new full search. The record identified is: Reference Title Description 63.24 Archaeological accession Details attached No further records were identified from the material retrieved during the searches undertaken for FOI 2026-024. Question 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. No such records were identified. For clarification, the accession registers maintained by Cardiff Museum form the earliest accession registers of the National Museum of Wales collection. Objects held by Cardiff Museum were not re-accessioned when responsibility for the collections transferred to the National Museum of Wales and the accession numbering sequence continued uninterrupted. Searches of the earliest accession registers therefore encompass the former Cardiff Museum accession records. As part of the enquiries undertaken in response to this request and previous requests concerning the same location, accession records and associated collections documentation were reviewed for the objects and locations specified above. No accession record, register entry, day-book entry, donations book entry or correspondence dated between 1875 and 1915 relating to finds from Great House Farm, Ty Mawr or Llandough Farm was identified. Question 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. No such records were identified. Archaeology Collections have confirmed that they hold no record of any additional ironwork from Llandough associated with the farmhouse floor, rear wing or dairy beyond material already considered in previous responses concerning this location. I hope this information is helpful. If you are dissatisfied with the way your request has been handled, you may request an internal review. Requests for an internal review should be submitted within 40 working days of the date of this response. If you remain dissatisfied following the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for a decision. The ICO can be contacted at www.ico.org.uk. Cofion cynnes, [A picture containing text, tableware, plate, dishware Description automatically generated] FOI Team [cid:image003.png@01DD54BD.2E027CD0] [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]> ------------------------------------------------------------ Attachments (3) - 63.24.1.pdf (application/pdf, 68 KB): https://wayback.bucklerfamily.estate/pdf/foi/2026-10-05_museum-wales_foi-2026-036_63-24-1-rowel-spur.pdf - 63.24.2.pdf (application/pdf, 64 KB): https://wayback.bucklerfamily.estate/pdf/foi/2026-10-05_museum-wales_foi-2026-036_63-24-2-spearhead.pdf - 63-24 letter.pdf (application/pdf, 78 KB): https://wayback.bucklerfamily.estate/pdf/foi/2026-10-05_museum-wales_foi-2026-036_63-24-letter-1931.pdf