GHF-E106-R33-A2 — Museum Wales collections record 63.24/1: medieval iron rowel spur, Llandough Church Farm, 1858
Wiki catalogue reference: GHF-E106-R33-A2 · Custodian / source URL: Buckler family evidence repository
Evidence preview
1. The evidence
Published unaltered as supplied. Archive copy (SHA-256 c1c0fa5e…cff).
Catalogue UID: GHF-E106-R33-A2 · Custodian/source copy: open source object. Preview and provenance status as at 10-10-2026.
Description
2. Key fields (as recorded)
Catalogue: GHF-E106-R33-A2 · Type: Museum collections record (database printout, 3 pages) · Object: 63.24/1, medieval iron rowel spur · Holder: Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales · Received: 5 October 2026, attached to the Museum’s reply to FOI 2026-036 (GHF-E106-R33) · Original filename: 63.24.1.pdf
Evidence standard: 1. the evidence, 2. key fields transcribed, 3. description, 4. interpretation. Section 4 is open to challenge under the change-control rule.
| Object number | 63.24/1 (Micromusée V6 SN 6236) |
| Identification | Medieval iron rowel spur |
| Description | Only one arm complete, but traces of the terminal survive on the other |
| Locality | Llandough Church Farm Llandough |
| Grid reference | ST168733 (OS 1:10,000 sheet ST 17 SE) |
| Collection date | 1858 |
| Method of discovery | surface find |
| Notes | found, along with six male skeletons, during the erection of new buildings “buried with a lot of shells, limpet or cockle” (as quoted on the accession card) |
| Measurements | length 180 mm (overall); width 100 mm; weight 100.6 g |
| Period | Medieval (c.1070–c.1500); 14th century; 15th century |
| Acquisition | Entry number 1963.24; 8 February 1963; 3 objects; donation; donor address Cogan Pill, Penarth (name not shown) |
| Display history | “The Knight” (to 25 April 2007); Origins – Warrior Society gallery (from 8 December 2007); removed from the Origins gallery 7 July 2014; store box M02.03 from 25 June 2015 |
| Condition | Checked 6 June 2006 (outward loan check): stable; missing the end of one arm and two of the teeth; stripped and appears to be waxed |
| Photograph | Black and white negative 21882 |
| Record | Created 17 October 1994 (acquisition entry created 10 November 1998); last updated 25 June 2015; validated |
DESCRIPTION A printout from the Museum’s collections database for one of the objects in accession 1963.24: an incomplete medieval iron rowel spur, dated to the 14th–15th century. It records the findspot as Llandough Church Farm, the date as 1858 and the circumstances as “during the erection of new buildings” with six male skeletons. The note says its wording is quoted from the accession card, which was not supplied. The spur was on public display in the Museum’s “The Knight” and “Origins – Warrior Society” displays until 2014 and has been in store since. 🕒
Transcription
Open transcription
No verbatim transcription is included in this entry as at 10-10-2026. Where the source contains legible text, transcribe it faithfully and mark illegible or uncertain words rather than silently reconstructing them.
Interpretation and wider context
INTERPRETATION The record’s provenance comes from the 1931 letter. Every provenance detail here (Church Farm, about 1858, new buildings, six skeletons, limpet or cockle shells) matches GHF-E106-R33-A1. The record adds no independent evidence of where the spur was found. 🕒
Relevance to Great House Farm. The Museum record proves only that the object is catalogued as having been found at Llandough Church Farm. It does not itself identify that place as Great House Farm / Tŷ Mawr. The Wiki therefore treats “Church Farm” as a source-specific term with unresolved identity, not as an alias. The fact that Great House Farm stands beside St Dochdwy’s Church is insufficient to make the equation. A period plan, deed, estate record or other independent identifier is required. 🕒
Points to follow up. The accession card itself; the third object in accession 1963.24 (three objects are recorded, two records supplied); the donor’s identity; and why the database record was created in 1994, the year of the Great House Farm cemetery excavation. The condition checker field names an unrelated body (Abbeyfield Gwent Extra Care Society), which looks like a data-entry error in the Museum’s record rather than evidence of anything; it is noted only for completeness.
- GHF-E106-R33 — Amgueddfa Cymru reply (FOI 2026-036)
- Archaeology and Heritage — the reported “armour” discovery
- GHF-E106-R33-A1 — letter of 1931 · GHF-E106-R33-A3 — record 63.24/2, spearhead
Interpretive assessment date: 10-10-2026.