Record

EV ID	EV-0018
Title	Letter, Cogan Pill: spearhead, spur and skeletons found at Llandough Church Farm c. 1858
Date of document	22 November 1931
Type	letter
Evidence label	PRIMARY DOCUMENT HELD
Repository / reference	Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales, accession file 63.24
Status	HELD — open the scan (PDF)
Provenance	Scanned PDF supplied by Amgueddfa Cymru, received 5 October 2026 with FOI 2026-036 reply (GHF-E106-R33); Published unaltered.
Wiki catalogue page	GHF-E106-R33-A1
Claims that rely on this	AI Agent & Machine-Readable Index, Amgueddfa Cymru — Museum Wales — Forensic Assessment, Archaeology and Heritage, Evidence Library, FOI & Public-Authority Reply Register — every reply email and its attachments, Missing Records Register, Records Access Chronology, Register Update — 30 September 2026, Sources and Archives, Welsh Office / Wales Office — Forensic Assessment, GHF-E090-N03 — 16 April 1974: “‘Open day’ to save ancient Welsh house” (Daily Te, GHF-E106-R33 — Amgueddfa Cymru reply to FOI 2026-036 (5 & 7 October 2026): furth (+2 more)

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Quotation: This spear head was found a[t] Llandough Church Farm when digging foundations for some new buildings about 1858. The spur was also found. About 6 skeletons of big men were also found in same place, all buried with a lot of shells, limpet or cockel.

Proves: In 1931 an unnamed writer at Cogan Pill recorded a spearhead and spur found at Llandough Church Farm c. 1858, with about six skeletons found in the same place.

Does not prove: Written c. 73 years after the find by someone not claiming to be a witness; Does not name Great House Farm or Tŷ Mawr, nor link the objects to the burials.

File stored in the wayback archive: EV-0018 in the artifact index.