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Ogof Pant-y-Llyn, Lake Hollow Cave, Ogof Craig Derwyddon, Druid's Crag Cave, Ogof Pant-y-Llyn lower entrance, Ogof Craig Derwyddon No.4


NGR: SN 60520 16744
210 m.asl

Carmarthenshire , West Wales
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Cave
Access The cave is situated in an old quarry known locally as Craig Derwyddon which is to the NW of Llandybie behind the Glan Gwenlais quarry. From the junction opposite Glan Gwenlais quarry entrance, turn right and follow the road for a few hundred metres, past a lake on the left. At the far end of the lake an old quarry track leads up through the trees. At a junction with another path turn right and enter the quarry. There were originally two entrances to the cave but the way through the lower, larger entrance, has now collapsed. The other entrance known as Ogof Craig Derwyddon is situated about 5 m above the larger and more obvious entrance.
Description An interesting cave that is formed in very steeply angled limestone beds which are well exposed in the Glan Gwenlais quarry immediately behind Craig Derwyddon. The entrance leads via an excavated crawl to the large Main Chamber which has a steep floor of boulders and mud. Some of the boulders are loose and so care must be taken.
History CCC & ICC 1984; AxCG 1985
Hydrology
Conservation SSSI: 1638 Cernydd Carmel (Mixed) Biological records
Gallery

Brendan Marris
2015
Survey
ISCA 1984 4c
Axbridge CG nl. Autumn 1985, p.17
GOG 2001 (partial)
References
Contributions towards a history of Swansea, Dillwyn L.W., 1840, p.52
Archaeologia Cambrensis 1893 pp.163-166 The Pant-y-llyn Bone Caves
John Rhys, Celtic Folklore (1901) pp.467-
SWCC nl 42, pp.4-5, Derrick Webley, Notes from 'Coelion Cymru' [are Cil-yr-Ychen and Pant-y-Llyn one and the same?]
SWCC nl 43, pp.1-5, Melvyn Davies, A comparative account of the three Llandybie caves
Descent Sep/Oct 1984, pp.18-19 The forgotten cave
SWCC nl 99, pp.26-28, Melvyn Davies, Ogof Pant-y-Llyn: a new extension
IscaCC Jnl.XIII pp.40-43 1991 The Hydrology of Pant-Y-Llyn
Caves of South Wales, Stratford, T., 1995
Gazetteer of Human Remains in Caves
Cambrian Cave Registry entry 1315
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