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Ogof Pont-y-Meirw, Ogof Pont y Meirw, Bridge of the Dead Cave


NGR: SO 02510 08410
217 m.asl

Merthyr Tydfil , Northern Outcrop - East (Morlais to Abergavenny)
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Rising Cave
Access Situated in the southwest bank of the Taf Fawr near Cefn Coed Cemetery. The entrance is about 50m upstream from a bridge connecting the two halves of the cemetery.
Description Only the first 36m of the cave is accessible to non Divers. The sump has been dived to around 76m.
History ICI Fibres SS, 1964; dived P.Allen, SVCC,UBSS 1965
Hydrology Water said to have been traced from Twll Clogfaen by Tony Donovan Tests
Conservation
Gallery

Brendan Marris
2011
Survey
ISCA ?
References
UBSS Circular, May 17, 1965, p.2
SWCC Newsletter 52, Mel Davies Recent Cave Discoveries in S Wales, in 4. Ogof Pont-y-Meirw, 1966
SVCC nl.4(1),pp.3-4, sump dived for 230 feet
SVCC Jnl 3, p.1
Descent 146, p.10, Martyn Farr, Fatality in Pont-y-Meirw
Caves of South Wales, Stratford, T., 1995
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