EV-0055 — Neath Guardian Report of Historical Society Meeting on Llandough Roman Villa Dig
| EV ID | EV-0055 |
|---|---|
| Title | Neath Guardian Report of Historical Society Meeting on Llandough Roman Villa Dig |
| Date of document | 17 April 1980 |
| Type | press |
| Evidence label | PRESS REPORT |
| Repository / reference | Neath Guardian, 17 April 1980, p.13. Buckler family evidence repository (UID GHF-E090-N05). Received as attachment 3293.jpg from Heneb records request, 24 September 2026. |
| Status | PUBLISHED — open the scan (image) |
| Provenance | Image supplied as attachment 3293.jpg from Heneb records request of 24 September 2026; Held in Buckler family evidence repository. Only Llandough passage transcribed. |
| Wiki catalogue page | GHF-E090-N05 |
| Claims that rely on this | GGAT — Forensic Assessment and Evidence Schedule v4.0.3 (full text), Press Archive — Newspaper Transcripts, Press Articles Index — every newspaper cutting and press extract, one page each |
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Quotation: …the excavations at Llandough near Cardiff, where the substantial remains of a Roman Villa and part of a later medieval house were discovered.
Proves: By April 1980, GGAT’s assistant director Henry Owen-John lectured publicly on Llandough excavations, reporting substantial Roman villa remains and part of a later medieval house discovered there.
Does not prove: Does not mention Great House Farm; Identifies excavation as the separate Roman villa site near St Dochdwy’s church (HER GGAT00768s); Only an extract transcribed.
File stored in the wayback archive: EV-0055 in the artifact index.
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)
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