Tooth Cave , Llethryd Tooth Cave
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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.
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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
Gallery
Brendan Marris
Mark Burkey
top sump
sump
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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