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Beamish Colliery

Second Pit

An Account of the Strata sunk through at the Second Pit, Beamish South Moor Colliery, from the surface to the Hutton Seam; Boring from Hutton Seam, in the Second Pit at Beamish South Moor Colliery, 1834

Shaft Details

Approximate surface level 490 feet above sea (Ordnance datum)

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Geology encountered   Thickness   Depth
  ft. in.   ft. in.
Strong clay, mixed with gravel and sand    12  0     12  0
Blue metal stone    16  5     28  5
Whin stone    2  0     30  5
Strong post    8  6     38  11
Strong post, with whin girdles    5  0     43  11
Blue metal stone    9  6     53  5
Strong Shield Row post    5  7     59  0
COAL - Shield Row Seam    4  10     63  10
    COAL, good    2  7       
    COAL, splint    2  3       
Thill stone    4  0     67  10
COAL    1  2     69  0
Thill stone    3  4     72  4
Grey metal stone    3  4     75  8
White post, with whin girdles    2  0     77  8
Blue stone    1  6     79  2
COAL, with scare bands    0  9     79  11
Thill stone    3  0     82  11
Soft black metal, with pyritous beds    7  6     90  5
Blue metal stone    19  11     110  4
Black pyritous bed    1  0     111  4
COAL - Five-Quarter Seam    4  10     116  2
    COAL, good    3  2       
    COAL, splint    1  8       
Thill stone    3  0     119  2
Blue thill stone    6  6     125  8
Whin stone    1  9     127  5
Blue metal    3  6     130  11
Whin stone    0  9     131  8
Blue metal    18  0     149  8
Strong post    2  11     152  7
Blue metal    10  4     162  11
COAL - High Main Seam    4  7     167  6
    COAL, with scare bands    4  7       
Thill stone    3  4     170  10
White post    0  5     171  3
Blue metal    0  3     171  6
White post    1  9     173  3
Blue metal    5  7     178  10
White post    0  8     179  6
Blue metal    5  5     185  0
White post, mixed with ironstone nodules    1  3     186  3
Black metal    9  2     195  5
Blue metal    6  2     201  7
Black metal, with shivery beds    3  2     204  9
White post    21  5     226  2
Strong blue metal    9  5     235  7
Blue metal    2  8     238  4
White post, mixed with beds of blue stone 2 feet thick    42  9     281  1
Strong blue metal    36  6     317  7
COAL - Maudlin Seam    1  3     318  10
    COAL, with scare bands    1  3       
Black, blue, and grey metal, with post girdles    22  3     341  2
COAL - Low Main Seam    4  2     345  4
Grey, blue, and black metal, with girdles and ironstone nodules    29  6     374  10
COAL - Hutton Seam    4  2     379  0
Boring from Hutton Seam, 1834    0  0     379  0
Blue thill stone, 3 fms. of this sunk    21  8     400  8
Grey metal stone, mixed with post    33  4     434  0
Whin stone    1  10     435  10
Grey metal, mixed with post    14  4     450  2
Black parting    0  5     450  7
White post    14  7     465  2
Whin    1  0     466  2
Post    4  8     470  10
Grey metal    3  9     474  7
Whin    2  3     476  10
Grey metal, mixed with post    13  2     490  0
Grey metal, mixed with post    6  7     496  7
Blue metal, mixed with post    11  4     508  0
Blue metal    3  2     511  2
Very dark blue metal    11  9     522  11
Blue metal, mixed with post girdles    7  7     530  6
COAL    0  3     530  9
Grey metal, mixed with post girdles    15  2     545  11
White post    6  1     552  0
Grey, metal, mixed with post girdles    15  8     567  8
Strong white post    2  1     569  9
COAL    0  4     570  1
Blue thill stone    3  6     573  7
Blue thill stone, mixed with post girdles    9  3     582  10
Dark blue stone, (thought coal)    1  6     584  4
Soft shivery thill stone    2  6     586  10
Grey metal    5  1     592  0
Whin    1  11     593  11
White post    0  10     594  9
White post, mixed with strong girdles    7  5     602  3
Blue metal    1  5     603  8
White post, mixed with strong girdles    3  7     607  3
Black stone    3  4     610  7
White post    5  10     616  5
Very strong whin    0  7     617  0
Strong white post    16  4     633  4
COAL    0  9     634  1
Sand, mixed with coal pipes    3  10     637  11
Blue thill stone    1  4     639  3
Slaty thill stone    3  1     642  4
Soft dark post    10  10     653  3
Strong white post    29  5     682  8
Black stone    1  2     683  10
Grey metal    4  5     688  3
White post    0  11     689  2
Whin    1  7     690  9
Blue metal    5  5     696  3
Whin    0  4     696  7
Blue metal    11  0     707  7
Strong grey stone    4  3     711  10
Whin    0  4     712  2
Grey stone    4  1     716  3
Post    1  7     717  11
Brown sand    0  10     718  9
COAL    1  4     720  1
Blue thill stone    1  6     721  7
Blue metal    5  6     727  1
COAL    1  4     728  6
Thill stone    1  11     730  5
Grey metal    3  1     733  6
Strong post girdle    0  2     733  8
A mild soft stone    2  2     735  10
Dark blue stone    5  2     741  1
Grey post, mixed with whin    3  1     744  2

Source: An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Volume A-B, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1878

  original entry for sinking/boring number 0069 in "An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Volume A-B, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1878"

  original entry for sinking/boring number 0070 in "An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Volume A-B, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1878"

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