L:2500
V:

Tunnel Cave, Cathedral Cave


NGR: SN 83880 16100
260 m.asl

Powys , Northern Outcrop - West (Black Mountain)		 map using leaflet map:
Cave
Access The lower entrance is on Dan-yr-Ogof property and visiting parties need to contact the DYOCAC for access details. See the Access p.of the Cambrian Caving Council Website for current Access arrangements at http://www.cambriancavingcouncil.org.uk/cave_access.html
Description From the lower entrance, a narrow passage gives access to a large chamber 'Davy Price's Hall' which is now a showcave. From here, via an airlock through the radon fan housing, the cave develops into a series of rifts and chambers up which it is possible to climb to reach the bottom of the shaft to the upper entrance (Tunnel Top).
History Extended in 1953 by SWCC
Hydrology
Conservation
SSSI: 0854 Mynydd Du (Mixed) NNR: Dan-yr-Ogof
Survey
CRG, 1958
SWCC nl.49 (sump extension)
BCRA Trans 4(1/2), 1977
References
SWCC Newsletter 6, 1953, p.6
SWCC nl.7, 1954, pp.7,9
British Caver, 25, 1954, pp.34,47
SWCC Newsletter 12, 1955, p.4
SWCC Newsletter 13, 1955, pp.6-8, D.Hunt, The Ascent of Steeple Aven
SWCC 13, 1955, pp.11-13, J.M.Alexander [Cascade Aven and Flood Rising]
CRG Pub.No. 7, (1958), C.Lewis Railton, The Survey of Tunnel Cave, South Wales
SWCC Newsletter 38, 1961, p.6
SWCC Newsletter 42, 1962, p.1
SWCC Newsletter 47, p.22,1964, Bill Little, Anenome Passage - An extension to Tunnel Cave [from Davy Price's Hall]
SWCC Newsletter 49, 1965, pp.10-11, Charles George, Diving Sump extension [from Davy Price's Hall]
British Caver, 43, 1966, p.27
RFDCC nl.27, p.5, 1970,[note on contract to drive a 40 or 50 yard tunnel to open the bottom entrance as a show cave]
Descent 17, 1971, p.26
CDG nl.24, p.24 (1972)
CDG nl.25, p.20 (1972)
CDG nl.27, p.19 (1973)
CDG nl.29, p.28 (1973)
Descent 34, 1976, p.24, Treasure Under a Welsh Hill
Caves in Wales and the Marches (Dalesman), Jenkins, D.W. & Williams, A.M., 1st Ed.1963
CDG nl.87, p.12 (1988)
SWCC Newsletter 112, 1993, p.42
CDG nl.108, p.24 (1993)
Caves of South Wales, 1995, p.109
SWCC Newsletter 118, 1996, p.140
SWCC Newsletter 69, 1971, p.11
Railton & Little, The Survey of Tunnel Cave, 1958, CRG Publication No 7
BCRA Transactions, Volume 4, No's 1 & 2, March 1977
Cambrian Caving Council nl. Jul 2007, Bernie Woodley, Tunnel Cave Airlock
Descent 204, p.18, Richard Frost, Tunnel Cave [Sisyphean Chamber]
Search for further records Browse registry map
Cambrian Cave Registry entry 289
 © Cambrian Caving Council ⓗ 2017