Everything about Dan Yr Ogof totally explained
Dan yr Ogof is a 10 mile (16 km) long
cave system in south
Wales, five miles north of
Ystradgynlais and fifteen miles south west of
Brecon within the
Brecon Beacons National Park, and is the main feature of a
show cave complex (advertised as
The National Showcaves Centre for Wales) which is claimed to be the largest in
Europe.
The cave was first explored by two local brothers in
1912, Tommy and Jeff Morgan, using candles and primitive equipment. Completely unsure of what they'd discover, they armed themselves with a
revolver. The Morgan brothers' initial expedition was halted at a large lake, which they later managed to cross by
coracle. They eventually crossed three more lakes in the same manner, but were stopped by a tight crawl.
The squeeze was passed by Eileen Davies (after Ogden's first passing of it see note) in
1963, a member of
Swansea University Caving Club. The initials 'PO' were found by Eileen Davies at the pitch to Gerard Platten Hall. Peter Ogden hadn't descended the pitch due to a period of bad weather.) Ref: SWCC records and Dan-yr-Ogof "The Jewel of Welsh caving" M Farr 1999 (page 50).
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Note: It was first passed by Peter Ogden also of Swansea University Caving Club in the October before Eileen Davies passed the long crawl (it looked better for show cave publicity and those on the party to ignore the break through by Ogden and hand it to the more photogenic Davies).
Exploration has been steadily continued by later
cavers who have extended the cave to its present 10 mile length. Some of this length was reached through
cave diving. One of these explorers was
Martyn Farr, who wrote a book about the system (see below) in which he claims that the system will eventually be extended to at least 150Km (100 miles).
In a 2005
poll of
Radio Times readers, Dan yr Ogof was named as the greatest natural wonder in Britain.
The bones of some 42 humans, as well as numerous animal bones, have been found in one of the nearby chambers of this cave system.
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