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Thanks! I was having trouble because the system used custom tools for LVM and it was not obvious how to see the mappings on the device. I'd tried pvscan and a few other commands to try to find the LVs but couldn't, until I realised that the entire disk was encrypted. That's why nothing was working ...

My partition table was overwritten. In an attempt to save data for some kind of forensic recovery, I dd'd the device that the partition was on ( dd if=/dev/blocks/dm-0 ). I only realised later on that this device was actually part of a volume group, only noticing because the name of the device was ...