King Philip's Cave is a

cave Caves or caverns are natural voids under the Earth's Planetary surface, surface. Caves often form by the weathering of rock and often extend deep underground. Exogene caves are smaller openings that extend a relatively short distance undergrou ...

Norton, Massachusetts Norton is a New England town, town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States, and contains the villages of Norton Center, Massachusetts, Norton Center and Chartley, Massachusetts, Chartley. The population was 19,202 at the 2020 United Stat ...

near Lake Winnecunnett. It may be accessed from Stone Run Drive off Plain Street near Bay Road and sits on a parcel of land owned by the Land Preservation Society, an independent non-profit

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chartered in 1970 by the State of Massachusetts. The cave is so named because

Metacomet Metacomet (c. 1638 in Massachusetts – August 12, 1676), also known as Pometacom, Metacom, and by his adopted English name King Philip,Wampanoag The Wampanoag, also rendered Wôpanâak, are a Native Americans in the United States, Native American people of the Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands, Northeastern Woodlands currently based in southeastern Massachusetts and forme ...

sachem Sachems and sagamores are paramount chiefs among the Algonquians or other Native American tribes of northeastern North America, including the Iroquois. The two words are anglicizations of cognate terms (c. 1622) from different Eastern Alg ...

also known as "King Philip", is said to have hidden here near the end of

King Philip's War King Philip's War (sometimes called the First Indian War, Metacom's War, Metacomet's War, Pometacomet's Rebellion, or Metacom's Rebellion) was an armed conflict in 1675–1678 between a group of indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodland ...

before meeting his death in the Great Miery Swamp in

Bristol, RI Bristol is a town in Bristol County, Rhode Island, United States, as well as the county seat. The population of Bristol was 22,493 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is a deep water seaport named after Bristol, England. Major ind ...

.MGA Links at Mamantapett
According to materials published by

The Patriot Ledger ''The Patriot Ledger'' is a daily newspaper in Quincy, Massachusetts, that serves the South Shore. It publishes Monday through Saturday. History The paper was founded on , as the weekly ''Quincy Patriot'' by John Adams Green and Edmund Butl ...

The town forest, where King Philip's Cave is located, and Lake Winnecunnett are both popular recreation sites.Norton: Your Town
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According to another source:

Every Norton school child has been entertained with the legend of King Philip's Cave.

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Hand-drawn map showing area of King Phillip's Cave
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