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Moulin Quinon and St. Acheul, and with them chipped flints, 
so chipped that M. Boucher de Perthes, the antiquarian, of 
Abbeville, and Dr. Rigollot, of Amiens, were convinced that 
they were the work of man, and if so, pointed to the con- 
temporaneity of man with these extinct mammals. Whether 
these chipped flints are, indeed, the work of man, or whether 
the chipping is to be attributed to accidental fracture of the 
flint in the melee which brought them where they are found, is 
a question which it will not be necessary to enter upon now, as 
in Kent’s Cavern the more palpable works of man, such as bone 
implements, are found associated with these extinct mammals. 
But all questions respecting both the contemporaneity of man 
with the extinct mammalia, and also the age of man, appeared 
for a time as if they were going to be set at rest by the dis- 
covery of a cavern near Settle, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, 
nine hundred feet above the Kibble, in the limestone hill known 
as King’s Scar. The cavern was discovered as far back as the 
day of her Majesty’s coronation, from which circumstance it was 
named Victoria Cavern. 
The early finds were those which more deeply interested the 
antiquarian. They consisted of fragments of pottery ; of Roman 
coins of the reign of Trajan and Constantine ; of spindle whorls 
and beads ; of bronze ornaments and ladies’ brooches, the latter 
beautifully enamelled in red, blue, yellow, and green ; they 
were delicate in workmanship, and of graceful design. The 
treasures pointed to the explanation that this cavern, away up 
on the bleak hills, had been a place of refuge to some Romano- 
Celtic families of the first few centuries of the Christian era. 
More recent excavations in Victoria Cavern have shown that 
it had had in times still more remote, other occupants than 
Romano-Celts, for the workmen on digging below the first floor 
came upon another, thickly strewn with bones of a different 
character to those with which they had been familiar. 
Amongst the bones, the osteologist found those of the hyaena, 
grisly bear, hippopotamus, Bos primigenius, woolly rhinoceros, 
and the mammoth. And following this bone-bed beneath the 
clay to the outside of the cavern, a portion of a bone was dis- 
covered which presented some difficulty in its determination. 
It was therefore sent to London to Professor Busk, who at first 
considered it to be the fibula of a small elephant, with which 
decision the late Mr. James Flower (articulator of the College 
of Surgeons) agreed ; but after some months Professor Busk 
gave it as his altered opinion that it was human, and read a 
paper upon the bone before the Anthropological Institute, and 
on another occasion referred to it as representing “ one of the 
earliest extant specimens of humanity. ’ 
