| Geology encountered |
Thickness |
|
Depth |
| |
ft. |
in. |
|
ft. |
in. |
| Soil |
1 |
0 |
|
1 |
0 |
| Yellow clay |
3 |
0 |
|
4 |
0 |
| Blue leafy clay |
7 |
0 |
|
11 |
0 |
| Blue gravelly clay |
66 |
0 |
|
77 |
0 |
| Blue gravelly clay |
3 |
2 |
|
80 |
2 |
| Red clay |
10 |
0 |
|
90 |
2 |
| Soft blue metal stone and a little water |
9 |
0 |
|
99 |
2 |
| COAL |
0 |
3 |
|
99 |
5 |
| Dark grey metal or thill and a little water |
7 |
6 |
|
106 |
11 |
| COAL |
0 |
3 |
|
107 |
2 |
| Dark grey metal or thill |
12 |
3 |
|
119 |
5 |
| COAL and a little water |
0 |
4 |
|
119 |
9 |
| Strong dark and grey metal, mixed with post |
9 |
2 |
|
128 |
11 |
| Strong grey post and water |
7 |
10 |
|
136 |
9 |
| Grey metal |
18 |
0 |
|
154 |
9 |
| Black metal |
0 |
5 |
|
155 |
2 |
| COAL |
1 |
0 |
|
156 |
2 |
| Thill or grey metal |
4 |
2 |
|
160 |
4 |
| Post girdle |
0 |
10 |
|
161 |
2 |
| Grey metal post girdles and a little water |
14 |
2 |
|
175 |
4 |
| White post girdle and water |
3 |
5 |
|
178 |
9 |
| Black metal |
2 |
9 |
|
181 |
6 |
| COAL |
0 |
4 |
|
181 |
10 |
| Thill |
10 |
0 |
|
191 |
10 |
| Grey post |
3 |
2 |
|
195 |
0 |
| Grey metal |
2 |
6 |
|
197 |
6 |
| Grey post, with black partings |
2 |
8 |
|
200 |
2 |
| Blue metal |
5 |
8 |
|
205 |
10 |
| COAL |
1 |
2 |
|
207 |
0 |
| Dark grey shale |
4 |
6 |
|
211 |
6 |
| Grey metal |
10 |
0 |
|
221 |
6 |
| COAL |
2 |
0 |
|
223 |
6 |
| COAL |
1 |
2 |
|
|
|
| Grey metal band |
0 |
4 |
|
|
|
| COAL |
0 |
6 |
|
|
|
| Post, with whin girdles and water |
7 |
0 |
|
230 |
6 |
| Grey metal and water |
3 |
4 |
|
233 |
10 |
| COAL |
1 |
0 |
|
234 |
10 |
| COAL |
0 |
6 |
|
|
|
| Band |
0 |
3 |
|
|
|
| COAL |
0 |
3 |
|
|
|
| Grey metal, with post girdles |
8 |
4 |
|
243 |
2 |
| COAL |
0 |
3 |
|
243 |
5 |
| Grey metal |
5 |
2 |
|
248 |
7 |
| COAL |
0 |
2 |
|
248 |
9 |
| Grey metal, with whin, post girdles, and water |
23 |
7 |
|
272 |
4 |
| COAL |
2 |
10 |
|
275 |
2 |
| COAL |
1 |
3½ |
|
|
|
| Brassy band |
0 |
3 |
|
|
|
| COAL |
1 |
3½ |
|
|
|
| Grey shale |
4 |
0 |
|
279 |
2 |
| Grey metal, with post girdles and water |
15 |
1 |
|
294 |
3 |
| Post and water on rise side of pit |
9 |
0 |
|
303 |
3 |
| Post and water on south side of pit |
36 |
0 |
|
339 |
3 |
| Dark grey metal |
12 |
0 |
|
351 |
3 |
| COAL |
1 |
8 |
|
352 |
11 |
| Grey metal or shale |
4 |
0 |
|
356 |
11 |
| Grey post and water |
5 |
2 |
|
362 |
1 |
| White post, with metal partings and water |
116 |
8 |
|
478 |
9 |
| Dark grey metal |
16 |
3 |
|
495 |
0 |
| COAL |
0 |
8 |
|
495 |
8 |
| Dark grey metal or thill |
16 |
3 |
|
511 |
11 |
| COAL |
0 |
5 |
|
512 |
4 |
| Brown shale |
0 |
6 |
|
512 |
10 |
| Grey post, with metal partings and water |
7 |
3½ |
|
520 |
1½ |
| Very damp red and white post |
53 |
8½ |
|
573 |
10 |
| COAL, stony |
0 |
3 |
|
574 |
1 |
| Soft grey metal or thill stone |
7 |
0 |
|
581 |
1 |
| Strong black metal, mixed with catheads |
1 |
5 |
|
582 |
6 |
| COAL |
0 |
2½ |
|
582 |
8½ |
| Strong light coloured grey post, with metal partings and whin girdles, also a bleeding of water |
10 |
0 |
|
592 |
8½ |
| Dark grey metal |
10 |
7 |
|
603 |
3½ |
| COAL |
1 |
8 |
|
604 |
11½ |
| COAL |
0 |
2 |
|
|
|
| Black band |
0 |
2 |
|
|
|
| COAL |
0 |
3½ |
|
|
|
| Black band |
0 |
1½ |
|
|
|
| COAL |
0 |
11 |
|
|
|
| Grey metal stone, with whin girdles |
27 |
4 |
|
632 |
3½ |
| Dark grey metal, with ironstone girdles |
15 |
10 |
|
648 |
1½ |
| COAL, foul |
0 |
5 |
|
648 |
6½ |
| Thill or dark grey metal |
2 |
6 |
|
651 |
0½ |
| Dark grey metal stone, with a surfeit and a bleeding of water |
12 |
0 |
|
663 |
0½ |
| COAL |
0 |
5 |
|
663 |
5½ |
| Grey metal |
1 |
8 |
|
665 |
1½ |
| White post, with whin girdles and water |
24 |
11 |
|
690 |
0½ |
| COAL |
1 |
5 |
|
691 |
5½ |
| COAL, good |
0 |
4 |
|
|
|
| COAL, black |
1 |
1 |
|
|
|
| Thill or grey metal |
2 |
7 |
|
694 |
0½ |
| COAL |
0 |
6 |
|
694 |
6½ |
| Dark grey metal stone, with post and whin girdles and water, and coal pipes at bottom of bed |
14 |
1 |
|
708 |
7½ |
| White post, with metal partings |
13 |
11½ |
|
722 |
7 |
| Grey metal |
1 |
4 |
|
723 |
11 |
| COAL |
3 |
0 |
|
726 |
11 |
| COAL, strong and good |
2 |
6 |
|
|
|
| Splint |
0 |
6 |
|
|
|
| Grey metal |
1 |
6 |
|
728 |
5 |
| Strong white post, with whin in places and water |
43 |
7½ |
|
772 |
0½ |
| Black stone |
0 |
3½ |
|
772 |
4 |
| COAL, black slaty |
1 |
5½ |
|
773 |
9½ |
| Grey metal, with post girdles |
15 |
8 |
|
789 |
5½ |
| Black metal, with ironstone girdles |
3 |
0 |
|
792 |
5½ |
| COAL |
0 |
1½ |
|
792 |
7 |
| Dark grey metal, with post and whin girdles |
16 |
1 |
|
808 |
8 |
| Hard white post, much mixed with whin in beds, also very coarse in the grain and much mixed with small metal and ironstone balls of various colours and a little water (supposed 70 Fathoms Post) |
74 |
6 |
|
883 |
2 |
| Dark blue metal, with metal balls and ironstone girdles (at a depth of about 1 fathom from tIme top of this stratum a mussel bed of from 4 to 5 inches in thickness was passed through) |
9 |
0 |
|
892 |
2 |
| Grey metal, with post girdles |
6 |
0 |
|
898 |
2 |
| Black stone |
13 |
5 |
|
911 |
7 |
| COAL, strong and good |
0 |
6 |
|
912 |
1 |
| Grey metal, with post girdles |
21 |
0 |
|
933 |
1 |
| White post, with a little water (supposed Main Post) |
19 |
0 |
|
952 |
1 |
| Grey metal, with ironstone girdles |
6 |
0 |
|
958 |
1 |
| COAL - Supposed Main coal Seam |
1 |
5½ |
|
959 |
6½ |
| COAL |
1 |
2 |
|
|
|
| Black slaty band |
0 |
1 |
|
|
|
| COAL |
0 |
2½ |
|
|
|
| Black slaty stone |
3 |
0 |
|
962 |
6½ |
| Black slaty stone, mixed with coal pipes |
0 |
6 |
|
963 |
0½ |
| Grey shale stone |
5 |
6 |
|
968 |
6½ |
| Grey metal stone |
21 |
0 |
|
989 |
6½ |
| Grey metal, with post girdles |
33 |
0 |
|
1022 |
6½ |
| Strong grey post, with metal partings and whin girdles and a little water |
44 |
2 |
|
1066 |
8½ |
| Blue metal girdles |
2 |
0½ |
|
1068 |
9 |
| White post girdles, with metal partings |
2 |
3 |
|
1071 |
0 |
| COAL (supposed Metal Coal Seam) |
1 |
10 |
|
1072 |
10 |
| Grey thill, with ironstone balls |
4 |
0 |
|
1076 |
10 |
| Strong grey metal, with post girdles |
10 |
0 |
|
1086 |
10 |
| Strong dark grey metal, with post girdles |
14 |
0 |
|
1100 |
10 |
| COAL, splint |
0 |
5 |
|
1101 |
3 |
| Grey metal, with post girdles |
10 |
0 |
|
1111 |
3 |
| Strong white post, with whin girdles |
12 |
0 |
|
1123 |
3 |
| Grey whin |
8 |
0 |
|
1131 |
3 |
| Grey metal, with post and iron girdles |
33 |
1 |
|
1164 |
4 |
| Black slaty stone |
1 |
0 |
|
1165 |
4 |
| COAL |
0 |
9 |
|
1166 |
1 |
| Swad |
0 |
3 |
|
1166 |
4 |
| Shale |
4 |
0 |
|
1170 |
4 |
| Grey metal stone, with whin girdles |
7 |
9 |
|
1178 |
1 |
| COAL |
0 |
3 |
|
1178 |
4 |
| Grey metal stone, with post and whin girdles |
25 |
3 |
|
1203 |
7 |
| COAL - Yard Seam |
4 |
2 |
|
1207 |
9 |
| COAL |
0 |
8½ |
|
|
|
| Band |
0 |
3½ |
|
|
|
| COAL |
3 |
2 |
|
|
|
| Thill stone |
4 |
2 |
|
1211 |
11 |
| Black stone |
0 |
5½ |
|
1212 |
4½ |
| COAL, splinty |
0 |
2½ |
|
1212 |
7 |
| Grey metal |
1 |
2 |
|
1213 |
9 |
| Dark grey metal, with ironstone girdles |
6 |
2 |
|
1219 |
11 |
| Grey metal, with ironstone girdles |
11 |
3 |
|
1231 |
2 |
| Grey post, with metal partings |
15 |
0 |
|
1246 |
2 |
| Dark grey metal, with ironstone girdles |
8 |
0 |
|
1254 |
2 |
| White post, with whin girdles |
5 |
6 |
|
1259 |
8 |
| Grey post, with scamy metal partings and whin girdles |
22 |
2 |
|
1281 |
10 |
| Black metal |
0 |
4 |
|
1282 |
2 |
| COAL - Bensham Seam |
6 |
0 |
|
1288 |
2 |
| COAL, top |
3 |
0 |
|
|
|
| Splint |
0 |
2½ |
|
|
|
| COAL, bottom |
2 |
9½ |
|
|
|
| Sump :- |
25 |
4 |
|
1313 |
6 |
| Blue metal, with whin, white post, and ironstone girdles |
|
|
|
|
|
| COAL - Six-Quarter Seam |
3 |
8 |
|
1317 |
2 |
| COAL, splinty |
2 |
0 |
|
|
|
| COAL, good |
1 |
8 |
|
|
|
| Left off in strong grey post |
3 |
0 |
|
1320 |
2 |