GHF-E106-R01 — Royal Commission (RCAHMW) reply RC26-0375, 29 September 2026
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Email from the National Monuments Record enquiries service of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, received 29 September 2026 at 13:31 UTC, subject “RC26-0375 (gan gynnwys RC26-0353, -0368, a -0371) – Ty Mawr/ Great House, Llandough, Cardiff”. Attachments: LES08 Ffurflen Archebu 2023.docx (order form), LES16 Rhestr Brisiau 2026.pdf (price list), and three signature images. The text below is the body of the email; the officer’s name is replaced by his role.
It documents the Commission’s stated position as at 29 September 2026: no campaign file, no record of the Johns–Buckler correspondence, an unexplained post-demolition visit by a survey officer, and an archive limited to the Coflein items. It does not say the correspondence never existed. The loss of that correspondence from the file is recorded in the Commission’s own archive note (see Missing Records Register); this reply adds that the Commission now holds nothing further. Other parts of the Welsh state may hold the material, and the matter stays open. Related: Archaeology and Heritage, Records Access Chronology. 🕒
Catalogue UID: GHF-E106-R01 · Custodian/source copy: open source object. Preview and provenance status as at 10-10-2026.
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Catalogue: GHF-E106-R01 · Type: Email reply (Welsh) from a public body · Holder: family mailbox; original email and its five attachments not yet mirrored · Register: FOI & Public-Authority Reply Register
The Royal Commission answers four of the family’s requests (8, 15, 17 and 20 September 2026) in one reply. In English: it holds no letters or records about Tŷ Mawr Farm, Llandochau Fach, in its registered files, which it describes as the only campaign records it keeps long term, and none have emerged since its earlier replies of 28 May and 10 and 11 June. Everything it holds on the site, including its demolition, is in its archive on Coflein (NPRN 20182). Aerial-photograph searches would be chargeable, and any aerial photograph covering the site would probably be a high-altitude vertical taken for routine landscape survey rather than a record of the site. It says the late-nineteenth-century armour find is not mentioned in the unpublished Suggett report (archive 6048945); two other archive records do mention it (6048942, and the Daily Telegraph article of 16 April 1974, 6048944, which dates the find to about 1870). It notes the Commission and the National Museum were founded in the early twentieth century, so it thinks the Commission is unlikely to have been involved in any transfer of the armour to the Museum. Archive records 6364275 and 6364276 concern other places (Tŷ Mawr, Tresimwn, and 33 Whitecross Street, Monmouth). A survey team member, Richard Suggett, visited the site briefly after the December 1988 demolition (record 6048945); no reason for the visit is recorded. It holds no letters or records of correspondence between C. N. Johns and Mrs Buckler, nor of any other circumstance of the demolition. NA/GL/88/49 is the accession entry for 6048945; the only item received under NA/GL/89/208 was 6048941, which is included in the 1990 GGAT assessment (6524751). Further queries will be treated as public enquiries and may be charged. 🕒
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Annwyl Sion Buckler,
Diolch yn fawr am eich ymholiadau o 8, 15, 17 ac 20 Medi. Fel y awgrymir yn eich e-bost o 20 Medi, gwnaf ateb eich ymholiadau gyda’i gilydd.
Fel y dwedir yn fy e-byst o 28 Mai , 10 Mehefin, a 11 Mehefin, nid oes unrhyw lythyrau na chofnodion ynglŷn â’r safle hon, sef Fferm Tŷ Mawr, Llandochau Fach, yn ein ffeiliau cofrestredig, sef yr unig gofnodion ymgyrchol rydem eu cadw yn y tymor hir. Nid oes unrhyw gofnodion wedi dod i’r amlwg yn ystod y cyfnod ers hynny. Yn sgil hynny, yr unig wybodaeth sydd gennem ynglŷn â’r safle, gan gynnwys ei dymchwel, yw’r cofnodion yn ein harchif, sef Cofnod Henebion Cenedlaethol Cymru. Gellir gweld rhestr lawn ohonynt yma: https://coflein.gov.uk/en/sites/20182/archives. Ynglŷn ag awyrluniau, oherwydd cymhlethdod y casgliad hwn, byddai rhaid talu ar gyfer y chwiliadau hyn (gwelir y rhestr brisiau, a atodir, ar gyfer manylion). Petasai awyrluniau sydd yn cynnwys y safle yn bodoli, y mae’n debygol y byddent yn awyrluniau fertigol wedi’u tynnu o uchder uchel fel rhan o waith arolwg y tirlun arferol ac nid fyddent yn canolbwyntio ar y safle, na ei ddangos yn fanwl.
Ynglŷn â’ch ymholiad ynglŷn â’r arwisg a darganfuwyd yn ystod y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg hwyr, nid oes sylw arno yn yr adroddiad gan Richard Suggett heb ei chyhoeddi, sef Rhif Archif 6048945 (https://coflein.gov.uk/en/archives/6048945). Gyda llaw, mae rhan fwyaf o’r cofnod hon wedi’i thanysgrifennu fel disgrifiad y safle gan Heneb, GGAT02038s. Yr wyf yn gynnwys eu disgrifiad isod, wedi’i gwirio er mwyn adlewyrchu y testun gwreiddiol: [the email then quotes the Heneb HER description of Great House Farm; that text is on the HER record GGAT02038s and is not reproduced here]
Er hynny, y mae dau gofnod sydd yn cyfeirio at ddarganfod yr arwisg, sef Rhif Archif 6048942 (https://coflein.gov.uk/en/archives/6048942), le y nodir ‘At one time it was reputed to be the stable of a Castle, which could be verified by the finding of the remains of a soldier in armour, his horse, lance and small shield under the dining room floor’, a Rhif Archif 6048944 (https://coflein.gov.uk/en/archives/6048944), sef erthygl o’r Daily Telegraph, 16 Ebrill 1974, le y nodir ‘Its history has never been fully chronicled but a theory that it was originally a coaching house near a Castle was supported by the discovery benieth the dining room floor in about 1870 of the remains of a soldier in armour, his horse, a lance and shield’. Gyda llaw, canys sefydlwyd y CBHC ac Amgueddfa Cymru yn yr ugeinfed ganrif gynnar a darganfuwyd yr arwisg yn y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg, mae’n annhebyg y byddai’r Comisiwn Brenhinol yn rhan o rodiad yr arfwisg i’r Amgueddfa.
Gellir archebu sganiau’r tri chofnod hyn gan ddefnyddio’r ffurflen archebu a atodir. Wrth i ni hepgor ffioedd ar gyfer archebion bychain (llai na pum sgan cyfraniad ymchwil), y mae’n debygol byddai darparir yr archeb hon am ddim.
Ynglŷn â’ch ymholiad ynglŷn â’r cofnodion Rhifau Archif 6364275 (https://coflein.gov.uk/en/archives/6364275) a 6364276 (https://coflein.gov.uk/en/archives/6364276), yr wyf wedi ymgynghori’r ddau. Gallaf gadarnhau y mae’r ddau yn berthnasol i’r ddau safle y adnabyddir yn ein catalog archif, sef Tŷ Mawr, Tresimwn, a 33 Whitecross Street, Fynwy, ac nid Tŷ Mawr, Llandochau Fach.
Ynglŷn â’ch ymholiadau o 11 Mehefin, fel y dwedir uchod, nid oes unrhyw lythyrau na chofnodion ynglŷn â’r safle hon, sef Fferm Tŷ Mawr, Llandochau Fach, yn ein ffeiliau cofrestredig, sef yr unig gofnodion ymgyrchol rydem eu cadw yn y tymor hir. Nid ydy unrhyw gofnodion wedi dod yn amlwg yn ystod y cyfnod ers hynny. Er hynny, y mae’n amlwg bod aelod o’n tîm arolwg, sef Richard Suggett, wedi ymweld â’r safle yn fyr ar ôl ei dymchwel yn fis Rhagfyr 1988 (sef cynnwys y cofnod Rhif Archif 6048945), ond nid chofnodir rheswm yr ymweliad hwn.
Ynglŷn â’ch ymholiadau bellach o 20 Medi, fel y dwedir uchod, nid oes unrhyw lythyrau na chofnodion ynglŷn â’r safle hon, sef Fferm Tŷ Mawr, Llandochau Fach, yn ein ffeiliau cofrestredig, sef yr unig gofnodion ymgyrchol rydem eu cadw yn y tymor hir. Canys hynny, nid oes gennem lythyrau na chofnodion ynglŷn â’r llythyrau rhwng ‘C.N. Johns a Mrs Buckler, Great House Farm’, fel y dwedais yn fy e-bost o 10 Mehefin, na unrhyw amgylchiadau eraill ynglŷn â dymchwel y safle.
Y mae’r rhifau cofnodion a nodir yn eich e-bost o 20 Medi, sef NA/GL/88/49 a NA/GL/89/208 yn edrych yn debyg at rifau cofnodion derbyniadau. NA/GL/88/49 yw’r rhifyn derbyniad ar gyfer y disgrifiad gan Richard Suggett, sef Rhif Archif 6048945, fel uchod. Yr unig gofnod a dderbynid fel rhan o NA/GL/89/208, ar ôl ein cofnodion, oedd Rhif Archif 6048941 (https://coflein.gov.uk/en/archives/6048941). Gyda llaw, mae’r cofnod hon wedi cael ei gynnwys yn yr adroddiad GGAT ‘Land at Great House Farm, Llandough. An Archaeological Assessment’ (1990), sef Rhif Archif 6524751 (https://coflein.gov.uk/en/archives/6524751). Fel y dwedais yn fy e-bost o 28 Mai, gellir gweld copi digidol o’r adroddiad hon yma: https://www.walesher1974.org/her/app/php/herumd.php?group=GGAT&level=3&docid=301361628.
Fel y sefydlir nid oes gennem gofnodion ynglŷn â’r mater hon heblaw am y rhai sydd yn ein harchif, sydd ar gael i’r cyhoedd trwy ein Gwasanaeth Ymholiadau cyhoeddus, mi fydd pob ymholiad pellach ynglŷn â’r mater hon yn cael ei thrin fel ymholiad cyhoeddus. Canys hynny, mae’n bosibl bydd rhaid talu ffioedd ar gyfer ymholiadau cymhleth o’r math hyn yn y dyfodol (gwelir y Rhestr Brisiau, a atodir, ar gyfer manylion).
Yr eiddoch yn gywir,
[officer name omitted] — NMR Enquiries, Ymholiadau Cyhoeddus / Public Enquiries, Ffordd Penglais / Penglais Road, Aberystwyth
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