Limekiln

A piece of history

The Limekiln dates to 1854, built in one of the former docks in an inverted bell-shape and burned local sea-shells and limestone imported from Hobart. The process produced lime that was used in mortar...

Interesting artefact

This limekiln is on the second run of the dockyard. It is an interesting place to walk to and you can look down into it.

Creating tools for civilisation

This was fantastic to understand the way that they had to create the tools to build the civilisation foundations in this out post. Lime, then mortar to create solid walls and infrastructure changed t...

Let's do some good

We walked to the Limekiln. There was a white house and a metal structure of a boat. There was a lot of grass, fence and trees. There used to have a convict who lived here. His name was Simon Hargre...

Seen better

Compared to the Lime Kiln in Walkerville Victoria it’s fairly average. Only check out if you have extra time