Record#

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Page ID: 1551 · Title: Welsh Office / Wales Office — Forensic Assessment · Evidence status: Not yet labelled — see the Editing Protocol · Version: 1.0.0 · Editing Protocol

Roadmap / catalogue cross-reference — 10-10-2026: Follow the reported departmental handover and 2026 correspondence chain in the Institutional Involvement Roadmap. The reported 1988 Cadw-to-Minister spot-listing letter is separately catalogued as GHF-E152; its exact reference and custody remain to be verified.

Forensic Assessment — Welsh Office / Wales Office#

Scope: historic/current Wales Office functions relevant to central-government oversight and records.

Role#

The Wales Office is not treated as the body that determined private title. Its relevance arises only where its records show ministerial/departmental awareness, correspondence, policy oversight or transfer/custody of records relevant to the case.

Forensic control test#

For IR/26/16 and any related request, identify the exact record category, search scope, responsible policy area, exemptions, retention/transfer status and substantive answer. Distinguish a departmental records problem from the merits of the underlying land claim.

Current finding#

As at 10-10-2026, the material reviewed does not establish wrongdoing by the Wales Office. This is not a finding that the office had no involvement; the assessment is limited to the particular correspondence, search and transfer issues identified. 🕒10-10-2026 The current objective is to obtain a reasoned answer and preserve any central-government record that can establish chronology or knowledge.

Human action#

Chase IR/26/16 to outcome, require a record-by-record explanation for any refusal/absence, and identify any transfer to The National Archives or successor department.

Acceptance: substantive result logged with the exact documents held/not held and escalation route. ^{🕒10-10-2026}

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 “Wales Office”. 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. ^{🕒10-10-2026}

Date shown by source title	Event / source — open evidence	Record class
1891	GHF-E090-N01 — “Llandough. Alleged Farmyard Theft” (November 1891)	Published Wiki evidence page
1897	GHF-E090-N02 — “Wireless Telegraphy. Marconi Invention Tested at Lavernock” (May 1897)	Published Wiki evidence page
22 November 1931	GHF-E106-R33-A1 — Letter, Cogan Pill, 22 November 1931: spearhead, spur and skeletons found at Llandough Church Farm c. 1858 (Museum Wales file 63.24)	Published Wiki evidence page
18 March 1983	GHF-E090-N06 — “Burnt relics represented years of digs” (South Wales Echo, 18 March 1983)	Published Wiki evidence page
18 March 1983	GHF-E090-N06 — 18 March 1983: “Burnt relics represented years of digs” (South Wales Echo)	Published Wiki evidence page
30 April 1988	GHF-E090-N15-02 — Saturday 30 April 1988: South Wales Echo (British Newspaper Archive extract)	Published Wiki evidence page
30 April 1988	GHF-E090-N15-02 — South Wales Echo search extract, Saturday 30 April 1988	Published Wiki evidence page
30 April 1988	GHF-E090-N07 — “Chainsaw farmer vows to fight on” (c. 30 April 1988)	Published Wiki evidence page
30 April 1988	GHF-E090-N07 — c. 30 April 1988: “Chainsaw farmer vows to fight on”	Published Wiki evidence page
1994	GHF-E148 — 1994 Cotswold Archaeology report, Condition 18 discharge and the developer’s counsel’s opinion	Published Wiki evidence page
29 September 2026	GHF-E106-R01 — Royal Commission (RCAHMW) reply RC26-0375, 29 September 2026	Records-access response
29 September 2026	GHF-E106-R03 — Wales Office, internal review acknowledgement IR/26/16, 29 September 2026	Records-access response
7 October 2026	GHF-E106-R33 — Amgueddfa Cymru reply to FOI 2026-036 (5 & 7 October 2026): further collections search	Records-access response
Date not explicit in title	Press Archive — Newspaper Transcripts	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. A match establishes an appearance in the records trail, not necessarily a substantive act by the institution.

Date	Correspondence / register item (click to open)	Reading rule
21 May 2026	R42 — Cadw (Welsh Government), Listed Buildings casework.	Name/alias match in the reply register; open the row to distinguish sender, recipient and incidental reference.
13 Jul and 30 Jul 2026	R27 — HM Land Registry (Coventry and Wales offices). Ref WA231076/A/216 and N610CGV .	Name/alias match in the reply register; open the row to distinguish sender, recipient and incidental reference.
8 Sep and 22 Sep 2026	R16 — Wales Office FOI (NIO mailbox). 26FOI 103 .	Name/alias match in the reply register; open the row to distinguish sender, recipient and incidental reference.
29 Sep 2026	R03 — Wales Office FOI (replying from the NIO FOI mailbox). Internal review IR/26/16 of 26FOI 103 .	Name/alias match in the reply register; open the row to distinguish sender, recipient and incidental reference.

Page version & change log#

Current version: 1.0.0

Version	Date (UTC)	Editor (human or agent name)	Change	Source / evidence
1.0.0	2026-10-18T15:29Z	Sion’s Tab agent	Footer standardised; no content change	Editing Protocol, 18 Oct 2026

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