The cache name is derived from the local name for Cribarth - The Sleeping Giant, due to its distinctive profile seen from further down the valley.
The cache is on the Giant's face, not too far from a man-made "pimple" added by our friends at the Ordnance Survey.
Enjoy your walk to the cache - it's a fair old stomp! Cache launches with a few of the usual swap items and an FTF trophy for the first to find!
EP learned that this is almost a direct replacement for a previously placed cache here - Cribarth Clamber (GCGR76) which went missing in 2005.
The cache is located in an area designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument (SAM). Cadw have reviewed the cache location and have kindly given permission (2023) for the cache to continue here. Cadw also provided further context and fascinating insight into the remains:
"The monument comprises the remains of quarry workings dating from the industrial period. The quarries worked limestone and silica sand and were connected with the Swansea Canal by tramroad. The remains include quarry, tip, limekiln, boundary and tramroad features. There is a dense network of tramroads within the quarries, one unfinished tramroad of the 1820s provides some of the best evidence in Wales of the construction process of such features. The main period of activity at the quarries was connected with the provision of flux and silica firebricks for the boom in the anthracite iron industry of the upper Swansea Valley from 1837 to about 1860."
GC1EP2B Penwyllt Cache (Ogof Ffynnon Ddu) expands on some of this industrial heritage, just a few miles up the road and across the valley.
