Subject: RE: ALLANOL/EXTERNAL - FOI 2026-024 / 032 / 036 – outstanding item 7: recorded basis for treating already-found records as “unrelated / not in scope”
From: FOI Requests
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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:56 UTC
Institution: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Refs: none
Archive id: gm-1a1309dc33154ec9
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Mr Buckler

Thank you for your email.

In relation to your request for the recorded basis on which records were treated as outside the scope of FOI 2026-024, Amgueddfa Cymru does not hold a separate search log, file note, internal note or other recorded document setting out the rationale for that assessment.

The original response was based on searches which identified no records relating to the reported discovery described in your request, namely the alleged discovery of a soldier, horse remains and associated armour at Great House Farm, Llandough. While searches identified records relating to other archaeological finds from Church Farm and archaeological investigations at Great House Farm, staff concluded that those records did not relate to the specific discovery described in your request and therefore fell outside its scope. No separate record of that assessment was created.  We have since provided you with the records referred to as being from Church Farm.

No records remain withheld.

Cofion cynnes,


FOI Team



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amgueddfa.cymru | museum.wales
 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Sion Buckler <[email redacted]> 
Sent: 10 October 2026 20:11
To: FOI Requests <[email redacted]>
Subject: ALLANOL/EXTERNAL - FOI 2026-024 / 032 / 036 – outstanding item 7: recorded basis for treating already-found records as “unrelated / not in scope”

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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