Museum
Friends of Durham Mining Museum
Events Calendar
e-Books and Books for sale
Photograph Gallery
Document Archive
Master Name Index
Discussion Forums
What's new in the site

Mining History
Colliery Index
Colliery Index
Shaft cross sections
Borings and Sinkings
List of Mines
Colliery Managers
Abandoned Seams
Colliery Maps
Company Overviews
Who's Who
Mineral Information
Managers Certificates
Educational Material
Bibliography
Statistics
Workers/Employee Lists
Notes for Family Historians

Disaster Reports
Names of those killed
Disasters in the 1700s
Disasters in the 1800s
Disasters in the 1900s
Memorials
Awards for Gallantry

Links to other sites of interest
Industrial Heritage Days Out
Former www.pitwork.net site

View our Guestbook

Index to site

Contact and address details


 Shafts  Index  Shafts 

Crake Scar Colliery

Pioneer Pit

Account of Strata sunk and bored through in the Pioneer Shaft, Crake Scar Colliery, 1893

Shaft Details

Sunk: 1893

Approximate surface level 1090 feet above sea (Ordnance datum)

Switch to measurements in:  fathoms, feet & inches, or metres












































Geology encountered   Thickness   Depth
  ft. in.   ft. in.
Sinking:—    0  0     0  0
Clay and sandstone    20  0     20  0
COAL - Brockwell Seam    6  0     26  0
Fire-clay    13  6     39  6
Sandstone    12  0     51  6
Grey beds    9  0     60  6
Blue shale    10  4     70  10
COAL    0  6     71  4
Fire-clay    3  6     74  10
Hard fire-clay    13  0     87  10
Sandstone    3  0     90  10
COAL    0  10     91  8
    COAL    0  2       
    Ironstone band    0  2       
    COAL    0  6       
Fire-clay    3  0     94  8
Grey beds    15  9     110  5
Sandstone    2  3     112  8
Blue shale    7  4     120  0
COAL    0  2     120  2
Hard grey sandstone    7  6     127  8
Sandstone    16  10     144  6
COAL    0  11     145  5
Blue shale    8  6     153  11
Sandstone    34  6     188  5
Bored further:—    0  0     188  5
Blue shale    1  10     190  3
Sandstone    17  9     208  0
White sandstone    11  0     219  0
Blue shale, mixed with hard white sandstone    16  6     235  6
Black shale    19  0     254  6
Light fire-clay    2  0     256  6
Blue shale    14  0     270  6
Sandstone    20  0     290  6
Blue shale    1  8     292  2
Fire-clay    7  6     299  8

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 2562 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"

  main page for Crake Scar Colliery

 


Mail:
Webmaster

Back

Home
Copyright © 1999-2008 by The Durham Mining Museum and its contributors
Registered Charity No: 1110608
Page last updated: 01 Jan 2008


Search

Print