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 

Newfield Colliery

Gibson's Pit

Account of Sinking at Gibson's Pit, Newfield Colliery. 1841

Shaft Details

Sunk: 1841

Approximate surface level 320 feet above sea (Ordnance datum)

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












































Geology encountered   Thickness   Depth
  ft. in.   ft. in.
Soil and clay    5  0     5  0
Gravel    2  6     7  6
Blue clay    23  0     30  6
Brown post    4  2     34  8
Soft grey metal    3  0     37  8
Brown post    12  0     49  8
COAL    1  3     50  11
Grey metal    20  0     70  11
COAL    1  6     72  5
Grey metal    15  1     87  6
COAL    0  6     88  0
Grey metal    14  0     102  0
Brown post    12  0     114  0
COAL - Busty Seam    3  0     117  0
Grey thill    3  0     120  0
Brown post    34  0     154  0
COAL    0  10     154  10
Grey metal    5  6     160  4
White post    9  0     169  4
Blue metal    1  8     171  0
COAL    0  10     171  10
Grey metal    2  4     174  2
COAL    0  4     174  6
Grey metal    4  0     178  6
COAL    0  4     178  10
Grey metal    4  0     182  10
Dark grey post    4  6     187  4
Black stone    0  10     188  2
Dark grey metal    12  0     200  2
White post    21  0     221  2
Soft dark post    4  0     225  2
COAL - Brockwell Seam    4  0     229  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 1455 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"

  main page for Newfield 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