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The Victoria Cave is situated in a most picturesque locality 
in a line of limestone scars, wliicli runs from tlie Settle rifle 
range at the Attermire Rocks, towards the and it 
faces S.S.W. It lies at a considerable elevation (about 1,450 
feet) above the sea level, and 900 feet above the Eiver E-ibble 
at its nearest point. The mouth of the Cave commands an 
extensive panorama of the district of Craven, with distant 
views of Ingleborough, the Lake Mountains, the Yalley of 
the Lune, the Fells of Bowland, and towards the south the 
lower valley of the Eibble, Pendle Hill, &c. 
The southern aspect of the Cave, sheltered from the north 
and from the east by the cliff in which it is formed, would 
give it an advantage as a habitation, whether for man or 
beast. Strangely enough this cavern, which has been a resort 
in such widely separated ages of the world's history, was on 
the day of Her Majesty's Coronation completely concealed, 
and unknown to any one. 
To Mr. Joseph Jackson, of Settle, belongs the honour of 
its discovery on that day, and still more of the intelligent 
perseverance with which he commenced and carried on its 
early exploration. The results of his researches may be seen 
in the British Museum, in the Leeds Museum, and in his own 
private collection. The Cave furnished him from time to 
time, as Prof. B. Hawkins states, with " a remarkable series 
of ornaments and implements of bronze, iron, and bone, along 
with pottery and broken remains of animals. Fragments of 
Samian ware and other Roman pottery, coins of Trajan, Con- 
stantius, and Constantino, proved that the stratum in which 
they were found was accumulated after the Roman invasion. 
There were also bronze fibulae, iron spear-heads, nails, and 
daggers, as well as bronze needles, pins, finger-rings, armlets, 
bracelets, buckles, and studs. The broken bones belong to 
the red deer, roebuck, pig, horse, Celtic shorthorn, sheep or 
goat, badger, fox, and dog. The whole collection was just of 
