Dear Mr Cornwell,

Your books have both entertained and educated me. I’m impressed by your research. I was surprised earlier today while reading my paperback edition of The Pagan Lord to read on p 241 that you refer to a quarry to the south of Chester  from which ‘the Romans had cut limestone to build Ceaster’. You might have meant the place we call Edgar’s Field which lies over the Dee Bridge in Handbridge. However, the Romans built the walls of Chester from sandstone, quarried here. The Romans quarried deep and their walls have proved longer lasting than Aethelflaed’s refortification from shallower sandstone .

Elizabeth Thompson