Milecastle 30 is a Hadrianic milecastle on the central sector of Hadrian's Wall, situated on the high ridge of Limestone Corner (also known as Teppermoor Hill), the northernmost point of the Wall. Constructed in the 120s AD under Hadrian and occupied, with interruptions, into the later 4th century, it would have been a small fortlet garrisoned by perhaps 8–32 auxiliary soldiers controlling a gateway through the Wall.
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The site is famous less for the milecastle itself than for its setting: Limestone Corner is where Roman engineers cutting the Vallum ditch to the south abandoned the work on enormous, partly-split dolerite (whin sill) boulders, leaving wedge-slots and displaced blocks still visible in situ — one of the most striking demonstrations on the entire Wall of the limits of Roman quarrying ambition. The northern ditch here was likewise left unfinished for the same reason.
The milecastle has not been extensively excavated in modern times; it is known principally from surface survey and from antiquarian observation in the 19th and early 20th centuries, which recorded a short-axis (Type II) plan typical of the central sector and stone construction. The associated unfinished engineering works in the Vallum and Wall ditch immediately adjacent are far better recorded than the fortlet's intern
Milecastle 30 is a Hadrianic milecastle on the central sector of Hadrian's Wall, situated on the high ridge of Limestone Corner (also known as Teppermoor Hill), the northernmost point of the Wall. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a fortlet site from the Roman period in Britain.
Milecastle 30 (Limestone Corner) is classified as a Roman fortlet — a military site in the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer. Roman Britain's archaeology encompasses thousands of sites ranging from legionary fortresses and marching camps to villas, temples and towns.
Several Roman sites lie within a short distance, including Limestone Corner Roman temporary camp (0.3 km), Turret 29B (Limestone Bank) (0.5 km), Turret 30A (Carrowburgh East) (0.5 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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