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Backworth Colliery

E Pit

Account of Strata sunk through at the E Pit, Backworth Colliery

Shaft Details

Closed: 1890s

Approximate surface level 150 feet above sea (Ordnance datum)

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Geology encountered   Thickness   Depth
  ft. in.   ft. in.
Engine ashes, etc.    4  0     4  0
Soil    1  0     5  0
Brown clay    6  0     11  0
Sand, with water    2  6     13  6
Blue clay    8  10     22  4
COAL, dirty    2  0     24  4
Grey thill    5  0     29  4
Grey metal stone    7  10     37  2
Post    3  7     40  9
Blue metal    3  5     44  2
Scamy post, with metal partings    5  0     49  2
Black metal stone    0  10     50  0
COAL    1  0     51  0
Thill stone    6  4     57  4
White post    40  0     97  4
Blue metal stone    4  4     101  8
COAL    0  5     102  1
Thill stone    3  5     105  6
Post    11  6     117  0
Blue metal stone    2  1     119  1
Post, with whin    13  0     132  1
Black stone and dark metal    12  6     144  7
COAL    0  10     145  5
Thill stone    1  0     146  5
Dark post    3  7     150  0
Dark post    8  5     158  5
Whin    2  6     160  11
Post    1  0     161  11
Dark blue metal    12  0     173  11
Whin    0  10     174  9
Dark blue metal stone    1  8     176  5
Splint    0  9     177  2
Blue metal    6  0     183  2
COAL - High Main Seam    6  0     189  2
Thill stone    0  9     189  11
COAL, coarse    2  5     192  4
White stone    0  10     193  2
COAL, coarse    2  6     195  8
White stone    2  6     198  2
Blue metal    43  3     241  5
Grey metal    2  9     244  2
Post    21  0     265  2
Blue metal    6  0     271  2
COAL - Metal Coal Seam    3  5     274  7
Thill stone    2  0     276  7
Light blue metal    20  9     297  4
COAL - Stone Coal Seam    2  3     299  7
Black stone    1  0     300  7
Dark grey metal    3  1     303  8
Post    2  11     306  7
Black stone    0  6     307  1
COAL    0  4     307  5
Dark thill    2  0     309  5
Blue metal, with ironstone balls    9  0     318  5
Blue metal, with post    6  0     324  5
Scamy post    3  0     327  5
Dark blue metal    6  0     333  5
COAL    0  6     333  11
Dark grey thill    3  5     337  4
COAL    0  3     337  7
Grey thill    1  0     338  7
Post    1  1     339  8
Dark grey metal    4  0     343  8
Grey post    4  0     347  8
Blue metal, with ironstone girdles    7  6     355  2
Blue metal stone    5  0     360  2
COAL - Yard Seam    2  6     362  8
Light grey thill    3  0     365  8
Grey post    4  1     369  9
Blue metal    4  6     374  3
Dark grey thill    2  7     376  10
Dark metal stone, with whin clyers    3  9     380  7
Black stone    0  6     381  1
Light grey metal    5  1     386  2
Grey metal, with whin    12  0     398  2
Blue metal    18  0     416  2
Grey post    0  0     416  2
COAL - Bensham Seam    4  2     420  4
    COAL, coarse    2  2       
    Band    0  8       
    COAL, good    1  4       
Error - Add    18  4     438  8
Outset at top    4  4     443  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 0034 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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