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Ogof Waun-rydd, Ogof Waun Rydd


NGR: SO 08326 15141
472 m.asl

Powys , Northern Outcrop - East (Morlais to Abergavenny)
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Sink Cave
Access Position unverified but 'S of Cwm Callan at foot of a 4 foot high peat cliff...nearby ruin of a small stone building'
Description 'small and divided to left and straight on...'
History SVCC, 1966, 1973
Hydrology Postulated as resurging at Ogof Blaen Crawnon Tests
Conservation
Survey
SVCC, 1966
References
SVCC nl.v4(6), pp.5-7, 'April 1966.....could not be explored without gear when found...could not be refound in thick mist...posthumously named Ogof Waun-rydd.'...
SVCC nl.v6(5), p.4, 'May 1968...dug out rift to 20 ft of constricted passage'...
SVCC Jnl.3, p.2, 'April 1966...Yeovil contingency of the club spent some time at the head of Dyffryn Crawnon and uncovered a new cave, Ogof Waun-Rydd, which they subsequently lost.'
SVCC nl.v11(5), pp.5,10 'unusual in that it is a sink in Lr Limestone Shale'...
SVCC: Trefil Caves in Brief, 1974
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