The Mellte Valley - Part 6 | Croydon Caving Club

Introduction

The referencing in the previous five parts of this article used the numbers set out below. All six parts have now been published in book form and copies are available from the author. The author would be glad to receive details of additions, deletions or corrections to the information contained in this study.

The References

1	The Little Neath River Cave Proc UBSS 12 (3) 1971	Standing P A Newson M D Wilkins A G
2	The River Scenery at the Head of the Vale of Neath Nat Museum of Wales 1962	North F J
3	Mellte Top Sink CCC Pelobates No 29 1976	Ockenden A C
4	Church Sink CCC Pelobates No 30 1976	Thompson F
5	Welsh Dresser - Church Sink CCC Pelobates No 20	Hatton M Ockenden A C
6	Ogof Glan Mellte CCC Pelobates No 28 1975	Ockenden A C
7	South Wales Success for Piano Tuners League Descent No 7 1969	Davies M
8	Porth-yr-Ogof Secrets Descent No 6 1969	Davies M
9	Geomorphology and Speleogenesis of Vertical Shafts in Carboniferous Limestone at Ystradfellte, Breconshire British Speleo Soc Proc No 5 1967	Burke A R
10	Ogof Ffynon Descent No 42 1979
11	Caves in Wales and the Marches Dalesman 1963	Williams A M Jenkins D W
12	The Mellte Valley Red Dragon Journal Cambrian Caving Council No 5 1978/79	Baguely F
13	Porth-yr-Ogof, Breconshire Proc UBSS Vol 12 (2) 1970	Standing P A Lloyd O C
14	Caves of South Wales Cordec 1978 (revised 1982 and 1986)	Stratford T
15	South Wales Interstratal Karst BCRA Trans Vol 1 (3) 1974	Thomas T M
16	British Regional Geology - South Wales HMSO Inst Geol Sciences 1970	Neville George T
17	Ogofau Gwynion CCC Pelobates No 37 1979	Ockenden A C
18	The Hepste River Cave and a Study of the Hepste-Mellte Area Proc UBSS 15 (2) 1979	Lloyd O C
19	Six-Inch Geological Sheets Inst Geological Sciences (part unpub)
20	Ogof Glan Mellte CCC Pelobates No 39 1980	Ockenden A C
21	Pulpit Hole Area (News Note) Caves and Caving No 8 1980	Bull G
22	The Carboniferous Limestone of the North Crop of the South Wales Coalfield Proc Geol Assoc Vol XL Pt 1 1929	Robertson T Neville T
23	Swallow Holes on the Millstone Grit and Carboniferous Limestone of the South Wales Coalfield Geol Journal 120 1954	Thomas T M
24	Y Gwal (The Burrow) South Wales CC No 30 Oct 1959	Jones A
25	South Wales 1963 MNRC Journal Vol 1 No 3 1964 (also MNRC Report No 9 Sept 1963)	Fortnum J Knee M
26	Porth-yr-Ogof and its Neighbours Caves and Caving No 1 1938	Braithwaite T
27	The Discovery of a Small Cave near Porth-yr-Ogof Hereford CC No 17 1964	Barnes D
28	A Trip to Ystradfellte Swallet Holes Hereford CC No 17 1964	Williams R
29	Down Further at Ogof Ffynnon, Ystradfellte South Wales CC No 41 1962	Harris B
30	Porth-yr-Ogof Sump 1 and the Upper Cave CDG No 14 1970	Lloyd C C
31	The Evolution of the Neath-Tawe Drainage System, South Wales Proc Geol Assoc Vol L Pt 4 1939	Jones R O
32	Pre-Seminulan Main Limestone of theAvonian Series in Breconshire Jnl Geol Soc London Lol LX Pt 3 1954	Neville George T
33	The Geological History of Brecknock Brycheiniog Vol 1 1955	North G J
34	Dig This CCC Pelobates 42 Pg 10 1983	Young J
35	Water Tracing on the Shar Wlad CCC Pelobates 49 Pg 8 1987	Young J
36	Ogof Shar Wlad CCC Pelobates 50 Pg 16 1987	Fry C
37	Ogof Ffynon CCC Pelobates 49 Pg 2 1987	Young J

Appendix I

Sites which appear to have been given incorrect grid coordinates in the references:

Site	Reference
1	14
6	14
8	14
15	11, 18
16	14, 18
17	11
21	12
23	18
39	14
42	14
43	1, 11, 14
44	1, 11, 14
47	1
48	1, 14
50	11
51	14

Appendix II

Sites mentioned in the references but not positively identified by the author:

Reference	NGR
18	SN 9414 1338 (Specific location not found)
12	SN 9408 1276
12	SN 9319 1242 (Ogof-y-ci Mawr)
18	SN 9409 1300
18	SN 9407 1313
18	SN 9259 1154
18	SN 9264 1172
12, 14	SN 9200 1456 (Ogof Gwynion West Digs)
12, 14	SN 0233 1235 (Ogof Dau Si)

Appendix III

Apparent confusions in the references:

Reference	Comment
11	Grid reference implies site 20 but description implies site 22.
12	Ogof Sulgwyn is probably site 20. Error in grid reference.
14	Buttertubs Cave (SN 941 128) is probably Pulpit Hole
18	Jenkins & Williams (Pg 27) must be refering to Cwm Porth Woods Cave.

Author:

Allan Ockenden