Ogof Cnwc, Hillock Cave, Price's Dig, Price's Old Dig
NGR: SO 21063 14925 410 m.asl
Powys
, Northern Outcrop - East (Morlais to Abergavenny)
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Cave
Access
There is a round entrance at the base of a cliff, 550m SE of Ogof Pen Eryr. See caving.wales for current Access arrangements
Description
A series of excavated crawls and chambers led to choke. This was passed in 2002 via a duck, but another route was then engineered to reach the large passages of Busman's Holiday...
History
Brian Price, 1950; CSS; connected to Daren Cilau, 2002; Tony Donovan, 2004
Hydrology
Conservation
SSSI: 0080 Mynydd Llangatwg (Mixed)
GCR: 554
Gallery
Keith Edwards 2009
Brendan Marris 2008
Survey
CSS Records (19), 1992; CSS nl 52(10/11),2011; CSS nl 53(1),2011
References
CSS Newsletter 8, 73-77, 1960. Description of Dig
GS (?) Journal, 1 (4), 63, 1961. Digging
Caves of South Wales, Stratford, T., 1995
A Caver's View of the Clydach River (Cwmbran Caving Club, 1986), Schuurmans, T.
John Stevens, Ogof Cnwc to Daren Cilau through trip description; CSS nl 52(10/11) p.142, 2010
John Stevens, Daren Cilau to Ogof Cnwc through trip description; CSS nl 52(10/11) p.143, 2010
John Stevens, Surveying Busman's Holiday CSS nl 52(10/11) p.144-147, 2010
