South Wales Caves

Llanelly Quarry Pot Description

Llanelly Quarry Pot is located in a disused quarry by an old viaduct on the south side of the Clydach Gorge (map). This cave has a notoriously tight and arduous entrance rift that leads to a small streamway that then enters a chamber at the top of a pitch. At the bottom of the pitch a scaffolded climb down through boulders leads to a tube that can be followed to the beautiful Midsummer Night's Dream Streamway. This can be followed upstream for some distance past some fine arrays of formations to eventually find the long low Ryans Duck and then enter the Fault Series where the cave ends in an impenetrable sump. Downstream from the entry point the streamway becomes tighter and a more pronounced rift passage. Hammer passage marks a change in the nature of the cave with a climb down to the stream leading to wet crawls, the Guillotine Climb and then degenerates into the ultra tight Midsummer Nights Nightmare Streamway. This eventually ends at a tight impenetrable sump which is close to the sump at the end of Shakespeare's Cave.