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Ogof Y Garimpeiros


NGR: SN 78015 21750
540 m.asl

Carmarthenshire , Northern Outcrop - West (Black Mountain)
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Cave
Access Cave in bank near sink North East of Trig. Point
Description
History Nig Rogers et al. - Grwp Ogofeydd Garimpeiros; dig at base of cliff (now collapsed) went August Bank Holiday 1989 through upward corkscrew squeeze. This, higher, entrance was subsequently engineered by unknown persons. Latest extension was in October 1996.
Hydrology Dye tested in less than 95 and then less than 24 hours to Ffrwd Las Tests
Conservation SSSI: 0854 Mynydd Du (Mixed)
Gallery

Brendan Marris
2010
BCC/Huw Jones
2018
Survey
References
SWCC Newsletter 106, 1990, pp.5-7, Bill Gascoine, A Hydrological Study of the Dan-yr-Ogof and Ffrwd Las Resurgences
SWCC Newsletter 118, 1996, pp.204-210, Nig Rogers, Somewhere under the Black Mountain
Descent 134, 1997, p.10 [extension and dye test]
Descent 136, 1997, p.9
Caves and Caving, Summer 1997
Brendan Marris Caves of South Wales
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