This year, in digging in some of the foundations of the Roman station at Caervorran, in Northumberland, some very large coal cinders were turned up, which glowed in the fire like other cinders, and were not known from them when taken out. This is an incontestable proof that the Romans were well acquainted with our pit coal. [LRS]

August. — A large stone, computed to weigh upwards of 20 tons, commonly called the Grey Mare, was taken out of the river Tyne, opposite the glass-houses below the bridge, at Newcastle. It was weighed up with keels, under the direction of Captain Errington, the town's surveyor. [LRS]

 

 

• LRS — Local Records or Historical Register of Remarkable Events by John Sykes, Published in 1833 in two volumes