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Ogof Carreg Lem, Sharp Rock Cave


NGR: SN 80584 18059
444 m.asl

Powys , Northern Outcrop - West (Black Mountain)
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Cave
Access From Sinc Y Giedd, head directly West towards the Twrch and Herbert's Quarry. Cross a very low ridge and at the foot of the next ridge are a number of large shakeholes. The entrance is in the largest of these which takes a stream from the North. Dig at Sink in huge shakehole provides entry to cave.
Description 12 metre climb down through boulders to drop into a short, large passage having smaller passages off it. Longest side passage currently 230 metres long, much of it tight phreatic tubes running overall about 170 degrees.
History SWCC, Pete Francis et al. in 1982, then Ali Garman et al. in 1997
Hydrology Dye tested to DYO resurgence (48 hours) by W.Gascoine. Tests
Conservation
Gallery

Brendan Marris
2009

Mark Burkey
2017
Geological variety below entrance choke
Survey
D.Gledhill & A.Hodge, 1982 in SWCC nl 97
References
SWCC Newsletter 97, 1983, pp.8-11, Bill Gascoine, A Hydrological Study of the Dan Yr Ogof and Ffrwd Las Resurgences
SWCC Newsletter 97, pp.24-26, 1983, Pete Francis, The Giedd System
Descent 53, 1983
Gascoine, W., (1989), Hydrology of the limestone outcrop, p.52 in Limestones & Caves of Wales
SWCC Newsletter 106, 1990, pp.5-7, Bill Gascoine, A Hydrological Study of the Dan-yr-Ogof and Ffrwd Las Resurgences
SWCC Newsletter 106, 1990, p.26
Caves of South Wales, 1995, p.116
Descent 136? 1996, p.8
Descent 136, 1997, p.25
Caves and Caving 76, Summer 1997, pp.12-13, Ogof Carreg Lem reopened
Caves and Caving 91, p.33, (2001), Ali Garman, Carreg Lem
SWCC 75th Anniversary Publication, Vol.2, pp.195-199 (2021)
Cambrian Cave Registry entry 180
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