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Oakenshaw Colliery

Section of Strata sunk through at Oakenshaw Colliery, near Brancepeth, Durham, by Messrs. Straker and Love, about 1855

Shaft Details

Sunk: 1855

Approximate surface level 620 feet above sea (Ordnance datum)

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Geology encountered   Thickness   Depth
  ft. in.   ft. in.
Outset    50  3     50  3
Grey metal    8  0     58  3
Black stone    13  1     71  4
COAL    2  4     73  8
Grey metal    2  3     75  11
COAL    0  8     76  7
Seggar    2  0     78  7
Post    5  8     84  3
Blue metal    2  0     86  3
Post    3  8     89  11
Blue metal    0  7     90  6
COAL    0  3     90  9
Seggar    1  0     91  9
Grey metal    10  0     101  9
Post    3  0     104  9
Blue metal    1  6     106  3
Post    2  0     108  3
Blue metal    36  0     144  3
Post    11  0     155  3
Blue metal    30  0     185  3
COAL    0  7     185  10
Seggar    1  2     187  0
Grey metal    5  0     192  0
Post    9  0     201  0
Blue metal    5  2     206  2
COAL    2  0     208  2
Grey metal    1  0     209  2
Post    7  0     216  2
Blue metal    10  6     226  8
COAL    0  9     227  5
Grey metal    5  0     232  5
Post    3  0     235  5
Blue metal    3  0     238  5
Post    0  6     238  11
Blue metal    0  6     239  5
Post    0  6     239  11
Blue metal    5  8     245  7
COAL    3  1     248  8
    COAL    0  9       
    Band    0  1       
    COAL    1  3       
    Band    0  6       
    COAL    0  6       
Coarse seggar    1  0     249  8
Grey metal    3  0     252  8
Post    1  0     253  8
Blue metal    0  8     254  4
Post    6  8     261  0
Blue metal    8  0     269  0
Post    14  6     283  6
Blue metal    2  0     285  6
COAL    1  7     287  1
Seggar    2  0     289  1
POST    6  0     295  1
Blue metal    6  4     301  5
Splint    0  2     301  7
COAL    2  0     303  7
Post    48  0     351  7
Whim    6  0     357  7
Post    4  0     361  7
Blue stone    21  8     383  3
COAL    3  2     386  5
    COAL    1  9       
    Band    0  9       
    COAL    0  8       
Seggar    3  0     389  5
Post    4  0     393  5
Blue metal    3  7     397  0
Black stone    2  10     399  10
Blue metal    5  0     404  10
Post    1  6     406  4
Blue metal    5  10     412  2
Post    0  8     412  10
Blue metal    1  6     414  4
COAL    3  0     417  4
Section of strata beneath the coal, as near as can be got, taken from a drift in a rise trouble North of 25 feet:—    0  0     417  4
Thill    3  3     420  7
Mixture of seggar and post stone    2  9     423  4
Band of ironstone    0  2     423  6
Blue metal and seggar, mixed with catheads    3  0     426  6
Brown post    2  0     428  6
Black stone    1  8     430  2
Post    1  8     431  10
Leafy Post    2  6     434  4
Post, mixed with thin metal girdles    2  6     436  10
Whin    3  0     439  10
Post (thickness unproved)    0  0     439  10

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 1485 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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