Decided to go caving, after a bit of a fail with the mine that was planned.
History
The cave was first recorded by T.A.J. Braithwaite in Caves and Caving Volume 1 1938. In 1947 the South Wales Caving Club dug through the boulder choke 45m into the cave to discover 150 of main stream passage leading to sump 1. In January 1967 members of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society dived sump 1 to discover Little Neath River Cave.
Visited with a non member who happily provided scale for the photos!
1 After some crawling and stooping for 40 meteres or so, we reached the boulder choke where we could here the roar of water, after climbing through we found the streamway.
2 after some more walking in the water we ended up in the main streamway.
3 This then started to close down a bit
4 The Bridge, quite high up in the cave above the streamway.
5 Just before the sump there are some nice formations
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8 One final shot on the way back out
History
The cave was first recorded by T.A.J. Braithwaite in Caves and Caving Volume 1 1938. In 1947 the South Wales Caving Club dug through the boulder choke 45m into the cave to discover 150 of main stream passage leading to sump 1. In January 1967 members of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society dived sump 1 to discover Little Neath River Cave.
Visited with a non member who happily provided scale for the photos!
1 After some crawling and stooping for 40 meteres or so, we reached the boulder choke where we could here the roar of water, after climbing through we found the streamway.
2 after some more walking in the water we ended up in the main streamway.
3 This then started to close down a bit
4 The Bridge, quite high up in the cave above the streamway.
5 Just before the sump there are some nice formations
6
7
8 One final shot on the way back out
