Subject: FOI 2026-024 / 032 / 036 – outstanding item 7: recorded basis for treating already-found records as “unrelated / not in scope”
From: Sion Buckler
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Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:11 UTC
Institution: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
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Archive id: gm-1a1273a35d066961
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Dear FOI Team,

Thank you for the disclosures under FOI 2026-032 (22 September) and 2026-036 (5 October).

On 25 August 2026 you stated that searches had located records of “other archaeological discoveries at Great House Farm and Church Farm” which were withheld as “not in scope”. On 26 August I asked for those records and, specifically, the recorded basis for calling them unrelated (item 7).

That question remains unanswered. The later disclosures released certain Church Farm and other-site material but still did not supply the internal note, search-log entry or other record that justified the original classification.

I therefore request:

1. The recorded basis (search log, file note, email or other document) that led the Museum to treat the already-found Great House Farm / Church Farm records as unrelated or out of scope on 25 August 2026.
2. If no such written basis exists, an explicit statement to that effect.
3. Confirmation that the full set of records located in the August searches has now been disclosed or, if any remain withheld, the precise exemption relied upon for each.

Please treat this as a request for the information that should have been provided under the internal review of 2026-024. This is for the completeness of the evidence library on the public record.

Yours faithfully,

Sion Buckler (Ret'd Sergeant)
Royal Signals Cyber/Electronic Warfare Professional and Life Member