L:1410
V:76

Ogof Pwll Swnd


NGR: SN 76239 18341
556 m.asl

Carmarthenshire , Northern Outcrop - West (Black Mountain)
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Cave
Access On open moorland on the North East slope of Foel Fraith. The cave entrance is near the site marked 'Pwll Swnd' on Sheet 160 of the 1:50000 series maps. It lies just downhill of the outcrop of the 'Honeycomb Sandstone' which is easily identifiable.
Description A small upper series leads via a short pitch to the old series and an extensive lower series with pitches of 9m,8m,8m (Wishing Well),15m (Basement),15m (West End)
History Discovered by A.Hill and Miss G.Tudor in 1939; independently by Gerard Platten, Easter Monday, 1939 (Weaver in Wessex CC Jnl No 288,and logbook) Explored and extended by HCC in 1971
Hydrology Tests
Conservation SSSI: 0854 Mynydd Du (Mixed) Biological records
Gallery

Brendan Marris
2009
Survey
SWCC (1947) HCC (1973) HCC (1985) HCC (1986) HCC (1998) HCC (1998)
References
British Caver, 4, 1939, pp.69,102
British Caver, 6, p.50
British Caver, 14, 1946, pp.85,100
British Caver, 16, 1947, p.80
British Caver, 19, p.80
British Caver, 22, 1951, p.18
SWCC Newsletter, 1951, p.19
SWCC Our Caves 2, 1952
SWCC Newsletter 4, 1953, p.3
SWCC Newsletter 5, 1953, p.3
Britain Underground, 1953
British Caver, 45, 1966, p.67
British Caver, 54, p.20
British Caver, 29, p.71
Caves in Wales and the Marches, 1967, D.W.Jenkins & A.M.Williams
HCC nl. 4, p.1
HCC nl. 7, p.8
HCC nl. 8, p.19
HCC nl. 27, 1971, p.3
SWCC Newsletter 70, 1972, p.16
HCC nl., 1973, p.24
HCC nl.28/29, 1974. Hartwright, P., Pwll Swnd-Ffryddiau Twrch connection proved
HCC nl. 30, 1974, pp.5,11
HCC nl., 1985, p.21
HCC nl. 40, 1986
Descent 88, 1989, p.24
The Caves of Carmarthen, 1990, p.34
Caves of South Wales, 1995, p.121
Descent 136, 1997, p.9
Brendan Marris Caves of South Wales
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