Cwm Pwll Y Rhyd

[Lu]

Can anyone indicate where exactly is the dry short upper series above the chasm?!!! does one need to go further up the cliff?

 

[rhychydwr1]

Copied from a well known book:

CWM PWLL-Y-RHYD YSTRADFELLTE
NGR 9114 1375 A 948 feet
L948 feet
About 200 yards south of the Pont Cwm Pwll-y-Rhyd.  A large chasm running across the river bed which takes the Afon Nedd Fechan in flood.  At the bottom is a large pool with a 90 foot long sump which connects with White Lady Cave qv.  To the left is a lofty passage with some formations in the roof.  A climb up leads to an exit high above the river and a crawl at floor level leads to a lower exit.
First recorded visit by R?nnfeldt 1890 surveyed by SWCC in 1959.  In 1987 work by SWCC, Croydon CC and Unit 2 CR&E produced 984 feet of new passage.

See page 5 for survey.

 

[glyders]

IIRC there is something to the left (looking downstream  ). You climb up from the hole and everntually end up emerging from boulders high above, beside the earlier river bed.

 

[Lu]

Glyders, are we talking a couple of metres or less for both exits? if that's it I think I saw both.
Where I think I got confused is that I was expecting the 240 metres or so of open passage to be here but I guess that it's on the White Lady side :doubt:

 

[Lu]

Copied from a well known book:

CWM PWLL-Y-RHYD YSTRADFELLTE
NGR 9114 1375 A 948 feet
L948 feet
About 200 yards south of the Pont Cwm Pwll-y-Rhyd.  A large chasm running across the river bed which takes the Afon Nedd Fechan in flood.  At the bottom is a large pool with a 90 foot long sump which connects with White Lady Cave qv.  To the left is a lofty passage with some formations in the roof.  A climb up leads to an exit high above the river and a crawl at floor level leads to a lower exit.
First recorded visit by R?nnfeldt 1890 surveyed by SWCC in 1959.  In 1987 work by SWCC, Croydon CC and Unit 2 CR&E produced 984 feet of new passage.

See page 5 for survey.

would that be caves of the mellte valley? I tried to get hold of this one actually but couldn't find it (well...I actually only looked at moore books....)

 

[graham]

Dunno if it'll help, but here's the survey:

http://www.ubss.org.uk/resources/surveys/survex/Little_Neath_1988.pdf

 

[Lu]

Yes, thanks, always helps! 

 

[glyders]

Glyders, are we talking a couple of metres or less for both exits? if that's it I think I saw both.
Where I think I got confused is that I was expecting the 240 metres or so of open passage to be here but I guess that it's on the White Lady side :doubt:

You've seen the survey now so a fairly redundant answer now from me, but yes.

 

[Lu]

Cheers