Weak ESR signals of pure CuCeO3 crystals found at low temperature indicate three types of defects in the spin-Peierls state: single spins, pairs of spins, spin clusters. These defects in high-quality crystals are ascribed to boundaries between domains arising due to breaks of the coherence of lattice dimerization. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.