EV-0068 — South Wales Echo: warehouse fire destroys Glamorgan/Gwent Trust finds (1983)
| EV ID | EV-0068 |
|---|---|
| Title | South Wales Echo: warehouse fire destroys Glamorgan/Gwent Trust finds (1983) |
| Date of document | 18 March 1983 |
| Type | press |
| Evidence label | PRESS REPORT |
| Repository / reference | South Wales Echo, 18 March 1983; British Newspaper Archive (per Findmypast); WordPress Media Library item 1199; Email attachment 3290.jpg (family, 24 September 2026). |
| Status | PUBLISHED — open the scan (image) |
| Provenance | Held by family as email attachment 3290.jpg (24 Sept 2026); Embedded scan in WordPress Media Library (item 1199) per correction; Transcript on Press Archive (N06). |
| Wiki catalogue page | GHF-E090-N06 |
| 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, Welsh Office / Wales Office — Forensic Assessment |
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Quotation: All the materials from the excavations at Cae Castell, Rumney, Cardiff, have been destroyed and so have those from the Roman building at The Knap, Barry, from the Roman Villa site at Llandough and from Barry Village.
Proves: South Wales Echo (18 March 1983) reports a fire at the Trust’s Swansea warehouse destroyed excavation finds, including Llandough Roman villa material; About 90% unrecoverable.
Does not prove: Does not mention Great House Farm or show any Great House Farm record was in the warehouse; Trust reported most excavation records were salvaged.
File stored in the wayback archive: EV-0068 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 (this page) · 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
20 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-0058 — GGAT letter or note warning of archaeological sensitivity at Great House Farm
- 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
- Wayback artifact index
- EV-0068 — South Wales Echo: warehouse fire destroys Glamorgan/Gwent Trust finds (1983)
- 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