South Wales Caves

Ogof Cnwc Cave Description

Ogof Cnwc was once known as Price's Old Dig, until it was renamed in 2003 after it was connected to Busman's Holiday in Ogof Daren Cilau. The cave is located 500m to the South East of the Daren Cilau entrance, in the base of a large quarry face (map), the cave is gated a few metres inside the 1m wide entrance - See Cambrian Caving Council for access. A comfortable crawl in a muddy passage leads to climb up through boulders to a chamber with a way on to the left and to the right. A log book is located in the small chamber, to be filled out by visiting parties. To the right the passage leads to an aven and an abandoned dig in a bedding plane. To the left a flat out crawl leads into the top of another small chamber, where a descent of the calcite flow leads to a comfortable sized rift passage. The rift passage is followed and quickly decreases in size as it reaches a right angle corner. From here the passage heads downhill to a muddy tube which is followed until a passage on the right is met. This then leads mainly as a hands and knees crawl to the top of a scaffolded shaft. At the bottom of the shaft is a sump, the original connection with Daren Cilau. Just above the water a dug out crawl bypasses the sump and leads to a walking sized passage. This passage then leads over boulders to a large chamber near the end of Busman's Holiday in Ogof Daren Cilau.