Amgueddfa Cymru — Museum Wales — Forensic Institutional Review

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Email dialogue evidence: every email exchanged with Amgueddfa Cymru about Great House Farm is catalogued word for word, by thread and date, at Amgueddfa Cymru — Email Correspondence Catalogue.

Chronology and catalogue links — assessed 10-10-2026: Use the Institutional Involvement Roadmap (1877–2026) for the date-ordered institution/people/evidence sequence. The reported 1988 Cadw-to-Minister spot-listing letter has its own catalogue placeholder at GHF-E152; the original has not been attached to that page as at 10-10-2026. A placeholder records an evidence gap; it does not establish the letter’s contents or misconduct.

Forensic Institutional Review — Amgueddfa Cymru

Scope: This page assesses only Amgueddfa Cymru — Museum Wales. It is not a finding against the Museum and does not merge its role with Cadw, GGAT, the Council, police, courts or private parties. ^{🕒10-10-2026}

Role actually supported by the record

The Museum is relevant principally to the artefact / provenance / present-remedy workstream. The project’s 2026 FOI search (2026-020) is recorded as a negative search. The Museum was not the body that made the 1988 listing, possession or demolition decisions.

Forensic control test

The relevant questions are narrower than title: what Great House Farm objects or records are held; how each item entered the Museum; whether accession/provenance records survive; whether an object can be linked to the farmhouse; and what current trustee/Charter powers are available if family provenance is established.

Current finding

As at 10-10-2026, the material reviewed does not establish institution-specific wrongdoing. This does not mean the institution had no involvement; the finding is limited to the particular acts and records assessed here. A negative FOI response establishes only the scope/result of that search, not that material never existed elsewhere or was never transferred.

Human action

Run object-by-object provenance requests only where a specific artefact is identified. Preserve accession numbers, acquisition documents, donor correspondence and catalogue history. Do not ask the Museum to adjudicate private land title.

Acceptance: each object has a provenance status, custodian, evidence source and proposed remedy.

Institutional appearance timeline — linked source index

Coverage rule: this is a chronological navigation map of published Wiki source pages found by searching the current site index for “Amgueddfa Cymru”. Every event label links directly to the page containing the source. It avoids duplicating source narratives. It records mention/appearance, not culpability. Dates are transcribed from page titles where available; “Date not explicit in title” means the linked source must be consulted. Search indexing is a discovery aid, not proof of exhaustive external coverage. ^{🕒10-10-2026}

Date shown by source title	Event / source — open evidence	Record class
1858	GHF-E106-R33-A2 — Museum Wales collections record 63.24/1: medieval iron rowel spur, Llandough Church Farm, 1858	Published Wiki evidence page
1858	GHF-E106-R33-A3 — Museum Wales collections record 63.24/2: medieval iron spearhead, Llandough Church Farm, c. 1858	Published Wiki evidence page
22 November 1931	GHF-E106-R33-A1 — Letter, Cogan Pill, 22 November 1931: spearhead, spur and skeletons found at Llandough Church Farm c. 1858 (Museum Wales file 63.24)	Published Wiki evidence page
29 September 2026	GHF-E106-R01 — Royal Commission (RCAHMW) reply RC26-0375, 29 September 2026	Records-access response
7 October 2026	GHF-E106-R33 — Amgueddfa Cymru reply to FOI 2026-036 (5 & 7 October 2026): further collections search	Records-access response
Date not explicit in title	Evidence Library	Published Wiki evidence page

Records-access register appearances — direct row links

Rows below match the institution’s name or an alias in the reply register. A match establishes an appearance in the records trail, not necessarily a substantive act by the institution.

Date	Correspondence / register item (click to open)	Reading rule
13 Jul, 3 Aug and 14 Aug 2026	R21 — Amgueddfa Cymru. FOI 2026-020 (furniture and movable property).	Name/alias match in the reply register; open the row to distinguish sender, recipient and incidental reference.
27 Jul, 25 Aug and 26 Aug 2026	R20 — Amgueddfa Cymru. FOI 2026-024 (the reported find under the dining-room floor).	Name/alias match in the reply register; open the row to distinguish sender, recipient and incidental reference.
8 Sep 2026	R19 — Amgueddfa Cymru. FOI 2026-036 and internal review FOI 2026-020 .	Name/alias match in the reply register; open the row to distinguish sender, recipient and incidental reference.
22 Sep 2026	R18 — Amgueddfa Cymru. Internal review FOI 2026-024 .	Name/alias match in the reply register; open the row to distinguish sender, recipient and incidental reference.
22 Sep and 28 Sep 2026	R17 — Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales. FOI 2026-032 .	Name/alias match in the reply register; open the row to distinguish sender, recipient and incidental reference.
5 Oct 2026	R33 — Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales, FOI Team. FOI 2026-036 (request of 8 September 2026; acknowledged at R19 ).	Name/alias match in the reply register; open the row to distinguish sender, recipient and incidental reference.