Ogof Wyntog

Location
Grid reference: SS43278630

Altitude: 9m

South Gower coast, near the Knave.

Access
No known access restrictions.

Description
Length: 150m

A small dry cave which is known for being hard to find. The cave starts as a small chamber with two entrances. The way on is a crawl for about 10m. This then opens up into a chamber with two ways on; to the left is a short passage leading to a steep slope to a sea cave, to the right a sand crawl is encountered. After this the passage opens up again to a large chamber which reputedly contains an inscription to the cave's original explorer who died in the First World War. This chamber also contains another slope to the sea. The way on is up a mud/sand slope above the drop to the sea; this leads to a dig with a small miner's cart and some rusty spades. This then reaches a rift wich is not a good digging prospect. All side passages lead to uninteresting chokes or break down into impassable rifts. The only good digging prospects in the cave are in the first chamber after the crawl as during wet weather a small amount of water enters here presumably from the nearby larger Ogof Ffynnon Wyntog.



The inscription reads: This cave – a secret by the family shared – was bequeathed to it by Ned Cunnington who first, alone, it’s dark entrance had dared in nineteen nine now twenty years gone, that many secrets of the earth be hid it does sufficiently and well expound. Let others – as he, depths and darkness did – go forth, explore into the dreadful ground. To us this cave is sacred to the name of him who, we believe, first entered it, who was liked well and – at his very prime – who to fight in the great war and fall in it and we would have this grandly entranced cave unimpaired, fitting monument....grave.....cave.....

Ref: Strange Find in a Gower Cave (Jones & Chislett) South Wales Evening Post 29/30th April 1964.