Archaeology Data Service
Forensic assessment · v0.2.0 · updated 1 November 2026
Translation pending: the assessment text below is in English, the authoritative record.
- Response status
- No contact on file → Disclosing
- Last contact
- 31 October 2026
- Next date on file
- None on file
- Earlier version
- v0.1.1, published 18 October 2026 on the Legal Wiki
Since last assessment
18 October 2026 to 1 November 2026
Our reading: Since 18 October 2026, 3 emails are on file: 2 sent, 1 received (1 with content, 0 automatic acknowledgements). The latest reply moves the response status from “No contact on file” to “Disclosing”. Most material: 21 October 2026, received, substantive disclosure: The records team lists five metadata records and digital resources on Great House Farm/Tŷ Mawr and describes the catalogue and library searches undertaken. Nothing here changes the earlier current finding unless stated above; this is a log of contact, not a finding about any person.
- Sentrequest
The requester asks whether records on Great House Farm/Tŷ Mawr exist, what searches were made, and whether anything was destroyed or transferred.
- Receivedsubstantive disclosure
The records team lists five metadata records and digital resources on Great House Farm/Tŷ Mawr and describes the catalogue and library searches undertaken.
- Sentfollow-up
Thanks the service for its 21 Oct 2026 reply and five catalogue links, and follows up the 28 Sep 2026 preservation notice.
The assessment as last published
Carried over unchanged from v0.1.1 (18 October 2026). Links point inside this site.
Chronology and catalogue links — assessed 10-10-2026: See the Institutional Involvement Roadmap (1877–2026) for the date-ordered institution, people and evidence sequence. The reported 1988 Cadw-to-Minister spot-listing letter has its own placeholder at GHF-E152; the original has not been attached to that page as at 10-10-2026. A placeholder records an evidence gap, not the letter’s contents.
Forensic Assessment — Archaeology Data Service
Scope: ADS is assessed only as an archival/data-access actor.
Role
ADS may provide discoverability and access to archaeological reports or datasets relating to Great House Farm / Llandough. It is not a title adjudicator, planning authority or heritage decision-maker.
Forensic control test
Determine which Great House Farm datasets/reports are deposited, their depositor, deposit date, metadata, accession identifiers, file versions and stated provenance. The key question is whether ADS preserves an independent trail showing what archaeological work was commissioned, reported and deposited.
Current finding
As at 10-10-2026, the material reviewed does not establish wrongdoing by the Archaeology Data Service. Repository results are limited to the date, scope and holdings searched. Any absence from ADS is only a finding about that repository’s present searchable holdings unless the deposit/retention trail proves more.
Human action
Request a targeted search for Great House Farm, Tŷ Mawr, Llandough and relevant project identifiers, asking for deposit metadata and file lineage rather than a general historical narrative.
Acceptance: a documented ADS search result with accession/deposit metadata and copies/links for every relevant item.
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 “Archaeology Data Service”. 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. 🕒
| Date shown by source title | Event / source — open evidence | Record class |
|---|---|---|
| Date not explicit in title | Archaeology and Heritage | Published Wiki evidence page |
| Date not explicit in title | FOI & Public-Authority Reply Register — every reply email and its attachments | Published Wiki evidence page |
| Date not explicit in title | Anomalies Register — Lines of Enquiry | Published Wiki evidence page |
| 1877 | Llandough (Penarth) — Cydfin / Tŷ Mawr and Pre-1877 Manorial Evidence | Published Wiki evidence page |
| Date not explicit in title | Records Access Chronology | 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’s sender/reference or recorded description. A match shows an appearance in the records trail, not necessarily an act by this institution.
| Date | Correspondence / register item (click to open) | Reading rule |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Sep – 2 Oct 2026 | R48 — Replies to the 28 Sep 2026 preservation notices | Register row contains a name/alias match; inspect the linked row to distinguish sender, recipient and incidental mention. |
Related navigation: FOI & Public-Authority Reply Register · Records Access Chronology · Evidence Library
Cross-reference — Cedwyn / Cydfin place-name evidence: References on this page to variants such as Cedwyn, Cydfin, Cedfin, Cydwin or Tŷ Mawr should be read alongside the GHF-E173 complete reference index and, where relevant, the Llandough (Penarth) pre-1877 manorial evidence page. Name similarity is a research lead, not proof of identical location, boundaries, ownership or title.
Page version & change log
Current version: 0.1.1
| Version | Date (UTC) | Editor (human or agent name) | Change | Source / evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.1.1 | 2026-10-18T15:30Z | the editors | Footer standardised; earlier log rows carried into this table; no content change | Editing Protocol, 18 Oct 2026 |
| 0.1.0 | 2026-10-18T14:27:00+01:00 | OpenAI-assisted maintenance agent (GPT-6) | Installed footer log and began semantic-version tracking at 0.1.0; this does not reconstruct earlier revisions. CURRENT VERSION: 0.1.0. | Saved through WordPress content API; public rendering not individually checked. |
| Legacy; version not recorded | 2026-10-18 (rollout date; exact time not separately recorded) | OpenAI-assisted maintenance agent (GPT-6) | Installed this page-local append-only change log and agent instructions. Existing page content was not intentionally rewritten. | User-directed site-wide changelog standard. Saved via WordPress API; public rendering of this page not yet independently checked. |
Agents and editors: follow the Editing Protocol.
Case file
This file is built for a future reparations claim. Facts are as the records show them; interpretation is labelled “our reading”. Items marked “not checked” have not been compared with the original record.
(a) Conduct timeline
3 dated interactions, oldest first; 0 automatic acknowledgements are left out. Quotations are verbatim from the institution’s email; where the reply’s substance was an attachment, the email subject is quoted instead.
Show the timeline
| Date | Direction | Reference | Type | Verbatim |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 October 2026 | sent | — | request | Subject: Great House Farm / Tŷ Mawr, Llandough – follow-up to my preservation notice of 28 September 2026 |
| 21 October 2026 | received | — | substantive disclosure | *Question 3:* *whether anything has been destroyed or transferred elsewhere (and **if so, when and to whom).* |
| 31 October 2026 | sent | — | follow-up | Subject: Re: Great House Farm / Tŷ Mawr, Llandough – follow-up to my preservation notice of 28 September 2026 |
(b) Inconsistencies and gaps
None found in the correspondence on file.
(c) Quarantined-name links
Records on the quarantine register (Kissed Frogs) that sit in, or came from, this institution’s holdings. None is treated as settled.
No quarantined-name record on the register is linked to this institution’s holdings.
(d) Duty and liability — our reading
Liability indicators (our reading): none
- Duty
- Custody and cataloguing of deposited records (Public Records Act 1958 for public records and places of deposit; the deposit terms for private collections); FOIA 2000 / EIR 2004 for information about holdings; an accurate catalogue is the finding aid the public relies on.
- Indicators the duty was not met
- none found in the correspondence on file.
- Evidence still needed to confirm
- the institution’s retention schedule and disposal record for the series in question; the catalogue or file list it searched; any internal review or complaint outcome.
- Likely extent of exposure if confirmed
- Limited to the custodial record unless a mis-catalogued or withheld item is shown to have kept evidence from a decision-maker; then it may extend to the cost of putting the record right.
(e) Evidence still needed
- View the original items and the accession / deposit file at the search room. for paid visit list
Versions
| 0.2.0 | 2026-11-01 | Moved to the Forensic Assessments webapp; dated “Since last assessment” section added; response status re-read. |
| 0.1.1 | 2026-10-18 | As published on the Legal Wiki. |