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Victoria Cave Cave / Rock Shelter Image © John Metcalf Nearest Town: Barnoldswick (18km SSE) OS Ref (GB):     SD838650 / Sheet: 98 Latitude: 54° 4' 49.38" N Longitude:     2° 14' 51.51" W Added by BrigantesNation Images (2) Miscellaneous (2) Links (3) 0 discussions Start a topic Show  |  Hide Web searches for Victoria Cave Flickr Google Google Images MAGIC The Megalithic Portal Bing Stone Pages Streetmap.co.uk Wikipedia

- Sites within 20 km - - Albert Cave (0km N) (2 posts) Jubilee Cave, Settle (0.51km NNW) (3 posts) Attermire Cave (0.89km SE) (4 posts) Horseshoe Cave (0.95km SE) (1 post) Cleatop (3.97km SSW) (1 post) Chapel Cave (4.82km ENE) (1 post) Comb Scar (5.58km E) (1 post) Malham Cove Fields (5.98km E) (7 posts) Sheriff Hill (6.14km E) (1 post) Seaty Hill (6.89km ENE) (2 posts) Giants Graves (Litton) (8.48km N) (6 posts) Brown Hills Beck Barrow West (9.42km WSW) (0 posts) Brown Hills Beck Barrow East (9.47km WSW) (1 post) Druid's Altar (11.06km ENE) (54 posts) Cup and Ring Marked Stone (11.35km WNW) (4 posts) Groove Marked Stone (11.7km W) (0 posts) Cup marked stone (11.92km W) (0 posts) Ingleborough (13.69km WNW) (32 posts) Yarlsber Camp (14.93km W) (4 posts) Fell End (15.6km W) (6 posts) Yockenthwaite (15.61km NNE) (33 posts) Eller Keld (15.95km WNW) (7 posts) Twistleton Scar (16.1km WNW) (3 posts) Nettlehole Ridge Stone Circle (16.52km E) (2 posts) The Great Stone Of Fourstones (16.88km W) (14 posts) Queen of the Fairies Chair (17.08km W) (5 posts) Elbolton Hill (17.1km E) (1 post) Fairy's Chest (17.3km E) (4 posts) Yarnbury Henge (17.54km ENE) (8 posts) Ingleton Falls Carvings (17.82km W) (6 posts) Tor Dike (18.07km NE) (2 posts) Grassington (18.71km ENE) (5 posts) Rocking stone (18.75km E) (0 posts) Apron Full of Stones (18.77km WNW) (7 posts) Dumpit Hill (19.06km E) (12 posts) Yordas Cave (19.33km WNW) (8 posts) Rectory Allotment (19.6km SE) (6 posts) - Facilities within 20 km - - Langcliffe Caravan Park (Camping Site: 2.1 km W) Gordale Scar Campsite (Camping Site: 7.8 km E)

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"The Victoria Cave, near Settle, so called from its discovery on the coronation day of our Queen, stands about half-way up a cliff two hundred feet high." Mr Jackson, the superintendant of the excavations, found a layer containing lots of "ornaments and implements." I liked the way they were described - and some of them have got to be prehistoric: "Besides spindlewhorls, beads, and curious nondescript articles of bone, it yielded bronze fibulae of undoubtedly Roman workmanship, a portion of the ivory hilt of a Roman sword, and spiral armlets made of bronze and gilded, which possibly may not be Roman. Some of the ornaments certainly present a style of art which is not Roman, and which is by no means of a contemptible order [!]. One curious circular brooch was composed of two plates of bronze soldered together, the front being very thin, and bearing flamboyant and spiral patterns of admirable design and execution." Of another fibula, "its delicate workmanship implies a high degree of taste in the fabricator." from Report on the Results Obtained by the Settle Cave Exploration Committee Out of Victoria Cave in 1870. W. Boyd Dawkins The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 1. (1872), pp. 60-70. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Rhiannon 15th June 2007ce

This cave has shown extensive use from the Mesolithic and before to the Roman period. Finds have included animal bone, flints and pottery. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by BrigantesNation 6th August 2003ce

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CAPRA Non-Human remains from Victoria Cave Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by grumpy3039 19th June 2007ce Edited 20th June 2007ce

Caving in the Settle Area, Victoria Cave A detailed description of Victoria Cave Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by grumpy3039 12th June 2007ce Edited 22nd November 2008ce

Out Of Oblivion - Victoria Cave The excellent Yorkshire Dales National Park Authorities Out of Oblivion website Contains - a description of the cave and its archaeology, location details, Public transport details and accessibility information. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by fitzcoraldo 3rd August 2006ce