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Tooth Cave, Llethryd Tooth Cave


NGR: SS 53190 90912
50 m.asl

Swansea , Gower
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Active Cave
Access From Llethrid Bridge on the B4271, follow the track South to Green Cwm for about 50 metres. The entrance is in the East cliff and is on Forestry Commission Land. The cave is gated. 2007 Access - Must be members of a caving club with BCA insurance. Key available from SWCC Current Access arrangements
Description The cave is liable to severe flooding. A 5 metre pitch leads to the first chamber from which a crawl of 260 metres leads to the stream passage (normally dry), which is about 830 metres long. The top sump has been dived, but chokes with gravel after 28 metres. The bottom sump dries out in dry weather giving access to several hundred feet of passage ending in an impenetrable sump.
History SWCC 1961
Hydrology
Conservation NPRN: 305613 SAM: GM284 SSSI: 0781 Coedydd Parkmill a Cwm Llethrid (Mixed) GCR: 1128 Biological records
Gallery

Brendan Marris
2008
Mark Burkey
Survey
P.O'Reilly. Speleotawe 1966 SUCC Grade 5
SWCC 75th Anniversary nl.v.1, p.132
References
SWCC Newsletter. 38, 2, 1961. D.P.Webley [Record of archaeological finds]
SWCC Newsletter. 38, 4-5, 1961. Roy Morgan; John Harvey [Discovery and description]
SWCC Newsletter 40, pp.13-14, 1962. C.Owen George, A dive in Tooth Cave
SWCC nl 41, pp.9-10, Roy Morgan
SWCC nl 42, pp.9-11, Derrick Webley, Tooth Cave - An Interim Report - 1962
British Caver 25, 52-54, 1963. Discovery
Caves in Wales and the Marches (Dalesman), Jenkins, D.W. & Williams, A.M., 1963. Location description and brief details.
Caving, 3, 3, 1963. [Access]
New Scientist 14 (878), 330, 1968. Discovery of human remains
CDG nl.30, p.22 1974
CDG nl.91, p.20 1989
CDG nl.92, p.23
OUCC Proc.13, pp.17-18, 1991. Roberts,S; Seddon,T.,Exploratory dives here and there. Tooth Cave
CDG nl.105, p.35 1992
Caves of South Wales, Stratford, T., 1995
Selected Caves of Britain and Ireland, 1997
CDG nl.133, p.35 1999
Gazetteer of Human Remains in Caves
Brendan Marris Caves of South Wales
Cadw
Wikipedia
SWCC nl 134, pp.81-90, 2018, Andy Freem, Tooth Cave: Identifying Complexities, Asking Questions, Suggesting Answers
SWCC 75th Anniversary nl.v.1, pp.130-133, 2021, O'Reilly,P.,Kokelaar,P.,Moon,T, The continuing legacy of Dick Baynton
Kokelaar, P. (2021) Green Cwm and the Last Glacial Maximum underground pp.124-159,165 in All Our Own Water
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