GHF-E029-01 — 1990 GGAT Archaeological Assessment: Great House Farm, Llandough
Wiki catalogue reference: GHF-E029-01 · Custodian / source URL: Buckler family evidence repository
Evidence preview
Preview status, as at 10-10-2026: The supplied scanned PDF is not attached to this Wiki entry. The official Wales HER document route is available as a separate access/checking route.
Catalogue UID: GHF-E029-01 · Family-supplied copy / catalogue provenance: bucklerfamily.estate. The official repository route is separate from the absent local copy.
Description
Item: Land at Great House Farm, Llandough: An Archaeological Assessment.
Authoring body: Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust Ltd. (GGAT).
Date: August 1990.
Site: Land at Great House Farm, Llandough.
Supplied copy: described as a 16-page scanned PDF; the local PDF is not attached to this entry as at 10-10-2026.
Repository reference: National Monuments Record of Wales reference NMR 6524751.
The family supplied a scanned PDF copy for archival transcription. The same report is identified in the Wales Historic Environment Record / national archaeological record as the 1990 Great House Farm assessment. The official record can be used as a separate access/checking route; it does not replace the missing local evidence copy.
The catalogue identity and source description are recorded here independently of file availability. Assertions about the report’s contents should be checked against the report itself or an official repository copy.
Transcription
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Interpretation and wider context
This report is a relevant archaeological assessment for the Great House Farm site. Its existence and catalogue identity do not, without examination of the report’s contents and context, establish what decision-makers knew, what legal or planning consequences followed, or whether later works complied with any requirements. Compare the report’s findings and recommendations with the relevant planning file, development records, later archaeological work and correspondence, cataloguing each cited item separately.
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Wiki assessment date: 10-10-2026.
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Interpretation: working hypotheses
Working hypotheses, kept apart from the record above. The record text on this page is unchanged. None of these is a finding: each line is labelled as inference, theory, a reading that cuts against the case, or a discarded theory, and names the evidence it rests on and what would confirm or refute it, so the reader can test it. Updated 25 Oct 2026 (v2: ingredients wording).
Demolition, archaeology and the green
THEORY · H-01Ground R9: whether knowledge of buried remains under the farm (1,026 burials recorded in 1994) was held before the 1986–87 trial and kept from the court. The 1979–80 villa letters, the 1982 warning letter and the 1983 fire are on record. Working hypothesis: such knowledge would bear on motive and on what the court was told, not on title itself.
Rests on: EV-0054 · EV-0056 · EV-0058 · EV-0068 · EV-0126 · EV-0134 · ground R9
Would be confirmed by: A pre-July-1987 document linking BP to archaeology at the farmhouse site.
Would be refuted by: Archaeological trust files with no such link before 1987.
Status: Open (ground R9, scores a0 b0 c1 d0)