EV-0058 — GGAT letter or note warning of archaeological sensitivity at Great House Farm
| EV ID | EV-0058 |
|---|---|
| Title | GGAT letter or note warning of archaeological sensitivity at Great House Farm |
| Date of document | 1 October 1982 |
| Type | letter |
| Evidence label | PRIMARY DOCUMENT — NOT PUBLISHED HERE |
| Repository / reference | GGAT / Heneb (Glamorgan–Gwent Archaeological Trust); Copy served on Cadw on 17 September 2026. No reference numbers given. |
| Status | PENDING — Held by GGAT / Heneb. Original not yet attached, to be attached from the GGAT report schedule; Custodian/source link bucklerfamily.estate. Copy served on Cadw 17 September 2026. |
| Provenance | Placeholder: no scan, preview or transcription attached. Custodian/source named as Buckler family evidence repository; Description draws on GGAT review v4.0.3, test 3. |
| Wiki catalogue page | GHF-E139 |
| Claims that rely on this | Cadw — Forensic Assessment v8.0.0 (full text), GGAT — Forensic Assessment and Evidence Schedule v4.0.3 (full text), Welsh Government — Forensic Assessment |
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Proves: Not held, so nothing yet. Reported: catalogue description records GGAT issued a warning dated 1 October 1982 about archaeological sensitivity of the site; Document itself not held, so rests on catalogue entry.
Does not prove: Does not establish recipient, exact wording or any reply, nor whether the warning reached the Council, Welsh Office or Cadw before December 1988, or was considered in the 1988 decision.
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 (this page) · 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)
Cited on
24 pages link here.
- EV-0054 — GGAT and Wales & West Housing Association correspondence on Llandough Roman-villa finds
- EV-0055 — Neath Guardian Report of Historical Society Meeting on Llandough Roman Villa Dig
- EV-0056 — Neath Guardian, 17 April 1980: “Roman villa remains at Llandough” (cutting image)
- EV-0068 — South Wales Echo: warehouse fire destroys Glamorgan/Gwent Trust finds (1983)
- EV-0113 — Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust comments on application 89/01396/OUT Great House Farm
- EV-0126 — Land at Great House Farm, Llandough: An Archaeological Assessment (GGAT, 1990)
- EV-0131 — Archaeology correspondence in planning file 92/00671 (1992–1994)
- EV-0132 — 1994 Cotswold Archaeology report, Condition 18 discharge and developer’s counsel’s opinion
- EV-0134 — Cotswold Archaeological Trust letter to National Museum of Wales on Llandough cemetery
- EV-0179 — Enquiry to former GGAT / Heneb about reported March 1983 Neath warehouse fire
- Evidence Register
- Pending Evidence
- Wayback artifact index
- 1988: Possession and Demolition
- BP Properties Ltd and BP Pension Trust
- EV-0058 — GGAT letter or note warning of archaeological sensitivity at Great House Farm
- GHF-E029-01 — 1990 GGAT Archaeological Assessment: Great House Farm, Llandough
- GHF-E090-N05 — 17 April 1980: “Historical Society had notable year” (Neath Guardian)
- GHF-E090-N06 — “Burnt relics represented years of digs” (South Wales Echo, 18 March 1983)
- GHF-E139 — 1 October 1982 GGAT warning about Great House Farm
- GHF-E148 — 1994 Cotswold Archaeology report, Condition 18 discharge and the developer’s counsel’s opinion
- GHF-E167 — GGAT and Wales & West HA correspondence on Llandough Roman-villa finds, April 1980
- GHF-E186 — Heneb / predecessor archive enquiry about the March 1983 warehouse fire
- MR-0042 GGAT letter or note warning of archaeological sensitivity at Great Hou — Research Library