Underground Car Graveyard – Cavern of the Lost Souls, Wales

Cavern of the Lost Souls - Car Mine

A disused mine in Wales, with a huge pile of motor vehicles that have been dumped through a small opening, making an amazing reflection in the underground lake below.

Visited July 2014  UK Gwynedd / Ceredigion, Wales, UK Forgotten

The Cavern of the Lost Souls is a disused mine in the Ceredigion / Gwynedd area of Wales that holds a relic of the past. The once-bustling mine now lies silent and flooded, the workers long gone following the decline of the mining industry a few decades ago. Time has begun to take its toll on the excavation, the entrance shaft now a couple of feet deep in water, and the old pathways carved out of the near-shear rock face now crumbling under foot.

Cavern of the Lost Souls - Car Mine
Cavern of the Lost Souls – Car Mine

A small opening above the main cavern casts a single beam of light into the enormous space. Below, illuminated by the shard of sunlight a huge pile of motor vehicles looms out of the darkness. The cavern had, for a while, been used as a dumping ground by the local council. Old cars, refrigerators, old TV’s and other household items have been tipped through the small entrance, piling up below, towering out of the water – and producing an amazing reflection.

Entry was one of the most fun to date…. After making our way through the flooded passageway the route opened out into a cavern with a 100ft drop below. We made our decent down the crumbling rock face, an interesting free-climb, followed by a crawl through another passageway to the main cavern. The tower of cars greeted us across a large lake, the clear water glistening in our torchlight.

Cavern of the Lost Souls - Light shines onto the car pile
Cavern of the Lost Souls – Light shines onto the car pile
Cavern of the Lost Souls - Some of the cars are below the crystal clear water
Cavern of the Lost Souls – Some of the cars are below the crystal clear water
Cavern of the Lost Souls - Reflection on the calm water
Reflection on the calm water
 
Close-up of the cars above and below the waterline
Close-up of the cars above and below the waterline
Cavern of the Lost Souls - proj3ctm4yhem photographing the pile of cars
Cavern of the Lost Souls – proj3ctm4yhem photographing the pile of cars
Cavern of the Lost Souls – Closer view of the huge pile of cars
Cavern of the Lost Souls – Closer view of the huge pile of cars
Cavern of the Lost Souls - Wider view of the mine's cave and the reflection on the water
Cavern of the Lost Souls – Wider view of the mine’s cave and the reflection on the water
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10 thoughts on Underground Car Graveyard – Cavern of the Lost Souls, Wales

  1. We are in 2020 and photos and videos of one urbex after another continue to follow. Is it possible that no politician has yet had that landfill cleaned? Everything is very fascinating but also very very harmful for the environment!!!

  2. I believe the local council has to be held accountable for such hiddeous act of using Mother Earth as a dumping ground. Is about time we held them responsible for that! How can they??? Discusting how they get away with it and hurt our Mother

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