Subject: FOI 2026-024 / 032 / 036 — c.1880 medieval ironwork from Great House Farm, Llandough: published sources say it is in the National Museum
From: Sion Buckler
Direction: sent
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 22:13 UTC
Institution: Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Refs: FOI 2026-024, FOI 2026-032, FOI 2026-036
Archive id: gm-1a1563a667d5c9b9
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Dear Amgueddfa Cymru FOI team,

Re: FOI 2026-024 (25 August 2026), FOI 2026-032 (22 September 2026), FOI 2026-036 (5 October 2026) and your reply of 16 October 2026 on the search basis.

Thank you for your replies about Great House Farm / Tŷ Mawr, Llandough-juxta-Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan. I would be grateful for help reconciling them with two published sources.

Your replies, as I understand them:
- FOI 2026-024: no records of the specific discovery (a soldier, horse, visor and lance);
- FOI 2026-032: other archaeological discoveries at Great House Farm were identified but treated as unrelated or out of scope;
- FOI 2026-036: no accession entry, register, day-book, donations book or correspondence dated 1875-1915 for ironwork, armour, a visor, lance or helmet from Great House / Llandough Farm, including the former Cardiff Museum registers;
- 16 October 2026: no separate search log is held beyond what was supplied.

The published sources:
- Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust, "Land at Great House Farm, Llandough: An Archaeological Assessment", August 1990 (planning files 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 and 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."

Either the published statements are mistaken, or the objects are recorded under a different findspot, donor name or description. I am asking only for recorded information, or confirmation that none is held:

1. Please provide any record held by Amgueddfa Cymru (including correspondence with the authors or with GGAT/RCAHMW, enquiry files, or collections-management notes) that records or comments on the statement that medieval ironwork from Great House Farm is in the Museum's collections. If none is held, please say so.

2. Please search the collections database and the accession registers for medieval ironwork (any object type) with any of these in the findspot, place, donor or provenance fields: "Llandough", "Llandough-juxta-Penarth", "Great House", "Ty Mawr", "Tŷ Mawr", "Cedfin", "Williams of Great House", or a Cardiff Museum donation before 1912. Please list any matches, with accession numbers and descriptions, or confirm that there are none.

3. Please say whether any record identified and treated as unrelated under FOI 2026-024 or 2026-032 could correspond to the c.1880 ironwork.

4. If this is better treated as a request for internal review of FOI 2026-036, please treat it as one and tell me the reference and the date by which you will reply.

Please reply within 20 working days (by 16 November 2026).

Supporting material: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://greathousefarmwiki.wordpress.com&source=gmail&ust=1792534426733000&sa=E (evidence catalogue), https://www.google.com/url?q=https://clerk.bucklerfamily.estate&source=gmail&ust=1792534426733000&sa=E and https://www.google.com/url?q=https://dartboard.bucklerfamily.estate&source=gmail&ust=1792534426733000&sa=E

Yours faithfully,

Sion Buckler (Ret'd Sergeant)
Royal Signals Cyber/Electronic Warfare Professional
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://greathousefarmwiki.wordpress.com&source=gmail&ust=1792534426733000&sa=E