Hazard Colliery

Section of Strata in the Hazard Pit, Rainton Colliery. September 22nd, 1818

Shaft Details

Sunk: 22 Sep 1818

Approximate surface level 300 feet above sea (Ordnance datum)

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Geology encountered	Thickness		Depth
	ft.	in.	ft.	in.
To bottom of first wall	196	0	196	0
To top of second wall	6	7	202	7
To bottom of second wall	36	11	239	6
To top of third wall	38	11	278	5
To bottom of Main Coal ingate (high seam)	21	7	300	0
To bottom of Main Coal ingate (high seam)	76	9	376	9
To bottom of third wall	94	4	471	1
To top of fourth wall	70	7	541	8
To bottom of Hutton Seam (high ingate)	47	6	589	2
To bottom of fourth wall	8	7	597	9
To top of fifth wall	11	10	609	7
To bottom of fifth wall	14	6	624	1
To top of sixth wall	15	10	639	11
To top of scaffold. Hutton Seam ingate at the stone drift	10	7	650	6
To bottom of sump wall	29	8	680	2

Source: An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Volume L-R, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1887

original entry for sinking/boring number 1587 in "An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Volume L-R, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1887"

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