well... I've managed to get into the volumes by booting to a Ubuntu Live CD, opening a terminal and issuing the following commands:
sudo -i
apt-get install mdadm lvm2
mdadm –Asf && vgchange -ay
or
mdadm --assemble --scan
Note: specify 'no configuration' for postfix, which seems to be a dependency for mdadm.
I can now see my main volume so at the very least I can recover, but this does not get me into the root partition, which is what is full...
Perhaps this will prove useful to anyone who needs to access their Synology data from another system but it get me any closer to recovering...
Perhaps someone here will know how to get into root.