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Benty Field (Lead Ore)

High Level Mine

Account of Strata sunk through at Bentyfield High Level Mine, South Tyne Valley

Shaft Details

Approximate surface level 1500 feet above sea (Ordnance datum)

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Geology encountered   Thickness   Depth
  ft. in.   ft. in.
High Slate Sill    18  0     18  0
Plate    3  0     21  0
Low Slate Sill    18  0     39  0
Plate    15  0     54  0
Fiddler's Sill    2  0     56  0
Plate    36  0     92  0
COAL    1  6     93  6
Ironstone    4  0     97  6
Fire-stone    6  6     104  0
Plate    53  0     157  0
High Pattinson's Sill    4  0     161  0
Plate    21  0     182  0
Low Pattinson's Sill    6  0     188  0
Plate    15  0     203  0
Little Limestone    6  0     209  0
White hazle    3  6     212  6
Plate    6  4     218  10
COAL    0  11     219  9
High Coal Sill    12  0     231  9
Plate    3  1     234  10
COAL    0  5     235  3
Low Coal Sill    12  4     247  7
Plate    22  4     269  11
Great Limestone    63  3     333  2
Tuft    10  0     343  2
Plate    20  0     363  2
Quarry Hazle    27  4     390  6
Plate and till bed    36  0     426  6
Four Fathoms Limestone    24  0     450  6
Nattrass Gill Hazle    32  6     483  0
Plate    73  7     556  7
Three Yards Limestone    13  9     570  4
Plate    4  9     575  1
COAL    0  7     575  8
Six Fathoms Hazle    24  0     599  8
Plate    13  2     612  10
Five Yards Limestone    15  8     628  6
Slaty hazle    24  3     652  9
NOTE: The Low Level Shaft of this mine is situated in Whitesyke.    0  0     652  9
Galena is chiefly found in the Coal Sills and Great Limestone.    0  0     652  9

Source: An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Supplement, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1910

  original entry for sinking/boring number 2367 in "An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Supplement, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1910"

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