a. Agen Allwedd b. Crystal Gallery, top of the boulder beside the entrance hole c. Tiny white beads of various diameters d. Beneath damp mud on angular rocks making up a choke in a fairly large, phreatic passage e. Pictures attached f. 318183,215301. Approximately 177 metres below surface.
Another odd case, like Craig a Ffynnon. The deposit lies beneath damp mud on top of a boulder. Amazingly, the mud may actually have been responsible for preserving the deposit, and protecting it from being washed away. Presumably, the mud was formed in a slow flowing pool of water, held back by the nearby choke. The subsequent cutting of the streamway beneath the passage would have washed the deposit away, but it was kept in place by the mud.
In the same area are some very large selenite crystals. These have been observed in many other places in proximity to CCCs, such as in Gothic Passage near Priory Road, and Epocalypse Way in Daren Cilau (in fact, this is why I started searching for CCCs beneath the mud in the first place). These crystals have also been found in Draenen within fluffy mud. It suggests that there may be some link between the CCCs and the selenite crystals, and perhaps the crystals are also cryogenic in origin.
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