Shafts	Index	Shafts

Geology encountered   Thickness   Depth   ft. in.   ft. in. Plate    36  0     36  0 Fire-stone    39  0     75  0 Plate    36  0     111  0 Girdle bed: Pattinson's Sill    1  6     112  6 Plate    2  0     114  6 Little Limestone    4  0     118  6 White hazle    18  0     136  6 Plate and grey beds    1  0     137  6 High Coal Sill    10  8     148  2 Plate    1  6     149  8 Post of sill    2  0     151  8 Plate    8  6     160  2 Girdle bed    0  10     161  0 COAL    0  6     161  6 Plate    13  6     175  0 Coal Sill    14  7     189  7 Black bed    0  4     189  11 Great Limestone, to level sole    62  6     252  5 NOTE: About 6 feet 10 inches above the Level mouth. This shaft is near Level Head, 8 fathoms along South Branch. It is 266 fathoms in a straight line from the Level mouth.    0  0     252  5

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 2843 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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