LIMESTONE CORNER Traditional Cache
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A short walk from limited parking in a layby.
The Limestone Corner camp is located at the northern-most point of Hadrian's Wall and can be reached about two and a half miles to the west of Chesters Fort. You need to park by a field gate on the north side of the B6318. This B road is surprisingly busy, and rather narrow, so you do need to take great care
The Wall was just part of an extensive military zone. On either side of it huge ditches were dug out, and at Limestone Corner you can get an idea of just how difficult this must have been for the soldiers and the military engineers. Here you can see a large number of massive stone blocks abandoned by the men working here. They would split the rocks by chiselling holes in them, and then inserting wooden wedges which had been soaked in water. Over time these would swell and split the rocks along natural cracks and fissures.
In the middle of the ditch, is one such boulder with the chisel holes clearly visible: it obviously proved too much for the men and was left there to this day - a clear reminder that even the Roman army wasn't completely perfect!
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