This South Wales cave was discovered by the Society in the 1960s and explored and surveyed between 1967 and 1987. Three reports on the cave were published in our Proceedings, a preliminary report, by Mike Norton, Dave Savage and Peter Standing; the most comprehensive report by Standing, Malcolm Newsom and Adrian Wilkins and a follow up by Graham Mullan. “Neath” was the first cave survey to be compiled by the Society using computer software rather than traditional methods. The current 3D file, however, is a modern production. The survey work was carried out by a large number of Society members, with assistance from members of other clubs, in particular the Cave Diving Group, the Cwmbran Caving Club and the Westminster Speleological Group. We are grateful for their support. The Survex version of the file also has surface detail added, using data generated with Mike McCombe’s “TerrainTool” utility. Just turn on “view surface legs”. The Therion version has the same topographic detail, but overlain by Ordnance Survey mapping detail.

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All of these files are released under a Creative Commons license

The 1988 plan drawing of the cave as a pdf

The Little Neath River Cave “Survex” 3D file by UBSS

The Little Neath River Cave “Therion” 3D file by UBSS Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2010

The BCA Data Repository is trackable here.