Backworth Colliery
A Pit
Sinking at Backworth A Pit, 1818
Shaft Details
Sunk: 1813, Closed: Jun 1980
Approximate surface level 200 feet above sea (Ordnance datum)
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| Geology encountered |
Thickness |
|
Depth |
| |
ft. |
in. |
|
ft. |
in. |
| Soil |
1 |
0 |
|
1 |
0 |
| Brown gravelly clay |
5 |
0 |
|
6 |
0 |
| Blue gravelly clay |
15 |
0 |
|
21 |
0 |
| Blue leafy clay |
3 |
0 |
|
24 |
0 |
| Brown post |
21 |
6 |
|
45 |
6 |
| COAL |
0 |
4 |
|
45 |
10 |
| White sand thill |
6 |
2 |
|
52 |
0 |
| Grey scamy post |
5 |
4 |
|
57 |
4 |
| Scamy grey metal stone |
7 |
0 |
|
64 |
4 |
| Grey thill |
5 |
0 |
|
69 |
4 |
| Post girdles |
5 |
6 |
|
74 |
10 |
| Brown whin |
5 |
0 |
|
79 |
10 |
| Post girdles, with clyers and red scames |
18 |
8 |
|
98 |
6 |
| COAL |
0 |
7 |
|
99 |
1 |
| Thill |
4 |
0 |
|
103 |
1 |
| Post, with whin clyers |
8 |
0 |
|
111 |
1 |
| Grey metal stone, with girdles |
23 |
4 |
|
134 |
5 |
| Post girdles, with metal partings |
15 |
8 |
|
150 |
1 |
| White post |
22 |
11 |
|
173 |
0 |
| COAL |
0 |
2 |
|
173 |
2 |
| Light grey thill |
6 |
0 |
|
179 |
2 |
| Dark grey metal stone |
5 |
6 |
|
184 |
8 |
| Grey metal stone, with post girdles |
10 |
4 |
|
195 |
0 |
| Brown whin |
3 |
6 |
|
198 |
6 |
| Grey and white post |
1 |
6 |
|
200 |
0 |
| Grey and white post |
46 |
0 |
|
246 |
0 |
| COAL |
0 |
9 |
|
246 |
9 |
| Dark grey thill |
7 |
0 |
|
253 |
9 |
| Dark metal stone |
6 |
0 |
|
259 |
9 |
| Blue stone |
4 |
6 |
|
264 |
3 |
| COAL, mixed with black stone |
1 |
0 |
|
265 |
3 |
| Grey thill |
3 |
0 |
|
268 |
3 |
| Grey metal stone |
2 |
6 |
|
270 |
9 |
| White post |
18 |
6 |
|
289 |
3 |
| Blue stone |
5 |
2 |
|
294 |
5 |
| COAL |
0 |
9 |
|
295 |
2 |
| Dark grey thill |
1 |
8 |
|
296 |
10 |
| COAL |
1 |
3 |
|
298 |
1 |
| Thill stone |
2 |
0 |
|
300 |
1 |
| Scamy white post |
17 |
6 |
|
317 |
7 |
| Scamy grey post |
3 |
4 |
|
320 |
11 |
| Grey metal stone |
9 |
6 |
|
330 |
5 |
| Blue stone |
2 |
6 |
|
332 |
11 |
| Black stone, with scares of coal |
0 |
2 |
|
333 |
1 |
| Grey thill stone |
7 |
0 |
|
340 |
1 |
| Grey metal stone |
10 |
9 |
|
350 |
10 |
| Post girdles |
1 |
2 |
|
352 |
0 |
| Metal partings |
0 |
3 |
|
352 |
3 |
| Post girdles |
2 |
2 |
|
354 |
5 |
| Metal partings |
0 |
9 |
|
355 |
2 |
| Post girdles |
1 |
2 |
|
356 |
4 |
| Grey metal stone |
3 |
2 |
|
359 |
6 |
| White post |
35 |
0 |
|
394 |
6 |
| Blue stone |
3 |
8 |
|
398 |
2 |
| COAL, slaty |
0 |
3 |
|
398 |
5 |
| Grey stony thill |
0 |
4 |
|
398 |
9 |
| Grey scamy post, with metal partings |
12 |
11 |
|
411 |
8 |
| Blue stone |
4 |
0 |
|
415 |
8 |
| Black stone |
8 |
0 |
|
423 |
8 |
| COAL |
0 |
4 |
|
424 |
0 |
| Grey thill |
0 |
3 |
|
424 |
3 |
| Grey thill stone |
1 |
3 |
|
425 |
6 |
| Grey post |
4 |
6 |
|
430 |
0 |
| Strong grey metal stone and post girdles |
14 |
0 |
|
444 |
0 |
| White post - Main post |
50 |
6 |
|
494 |
6 |
| Grey scamy post |
6 |
0 |
|
500 |
6 |
| COAL - Main Coal Seam |
10 |
2 |
|
510 |
8 |
| COAL |
5 |
6½ |
|
|
|
| Thill |
0 |
1¾ |
|
|
|
| Ground— |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
| COAL |
1 |
7½ |
|
|
|
| Thill |
0 |
4 |
|
|
|
| Bottom— |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
| COAL |
2 |
6½ |
|
|
|
| Grey thill |
1 |
6 |
|
512 |
2 |
| Grey scamy stone |
7 |
6 |
|
519 |
8 |
| Scamy post and whin girdles |
21 |
4 |
|
541 |
0 |
| Grey metal stone |
6 |
0 |
|
547 |
0 |
|
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 0030 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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