[Recovered on 19 Oct 2026 from the original email in the family's Gmail, because this archive file was missing. Matched to this entry by its subject line; where several emails share a subject, the order within the group is not certain. Email addresses, phone numbers and private addresses are redacted.]
Subject: Re: RC26-0205 - Great House Farm, Williams/ Buckler Family, Llandough, Vale of Glamorgan - Further Details of Archives
From: Sion Buckler
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:39 UTC
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On Wed, 10 Jun 2026, 10:06 Dr Adam Coward, <[email redacted]>
wrote:
> Good afternoon,
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> Thank you for your further enquiry. I have checked the accessions
> information for the archive items which we hold related to the site.
> Unfortunately, there is no accessions data for the items in the NMR Site
> File collection. This is because most of the information was either created
> (in the case of notes and drawing from site visits) or collected (in the
> case of the newspaper cuttings) by RCAHMW staff in the course of their
> duties. Having examined the records themselves, however, I do note that
> Archive Number 6048942 *may* have come from a Mrs Buckler (‘Mrs Buckler?’
> is handwritten under the account). There is also a note at the bottom of
> Archive Number 6048945 that ‘Correspondence between C.N. Johns and Mrs
> Buckler, Great House Farm, has been lost since 1986/87’, although I have
> been unable to find any other record of this correspondence either in our
> records or our archive catalogue, having carried out both digital and
> physical searches, including searching through the RCAHMW administrative
> files in the archive (some of which are not yet open to the public).
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> With regard to the first three records in the list, I include what
> accessions details are available below:
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> Archive Number
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> creator or originating body
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> accession source
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> accession date
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> 6524751
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> Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust
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> Donation
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> 20/03/2019
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> 6416853
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> Cotswold Archaeology
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> Donation
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> 30/05/2014
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> 6500905
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> Dr Katherine Watson
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> Transferred from Historic England as part of an exchange of material
> between the two organisations
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> 15/01/2018
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> With regards to which records mention things like ownership and the
> dispute, most of the newspaper article clippings naturally discuss it.
> Archive Number 6048942 provides a short history of the site and notes the
> family’s residence there and Archive Number 6048945 notes that ‘The house
> remained partially recorded because of problems created by an ownership
> dispute. The house and farm buildings were suddenly and completely
> destroyed by B. P. Properties Ltd. on 6th December 1988 amid considerable
> local controversy’. If you would like further details about the content of
> these records, they can be viewed in our Search Room, located in the
> National Library of Wales, which is open Tuesday through Thursday. Scans of
> records can also be requested, using the attached order form. We also do
> offer a limited document summary service. Please see our price list for
> details.
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> In addition to these 14 records, we may hold some historical aerial
> photography which may include the site. This would likely include vertical
> aerial photography taken from a high altitude by the Royal Air Force and/or
> Ordnance survey from the 1940s to the turn of the 21st century. If you
> would like to request a search of our historic aerial photography
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> Sincerely,
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> Adam Coward
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> Dr Adam Coward
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