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Penshaw Colliery
E Pit
Sunk in the E Pit, Penshaw Colliery
Shaft Details
Approximate surface level 192 feet above sea (Ordnance datum)
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| Geology encountered |
Thickness |
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Depth |
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ft. |
in. |
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ft. |
in. |
| Soil |
1 |
0 |
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1 |
0 |
| Fine yellow clay |
1 |
0 |
|
2 |
0 |
| Strong blue clay |
2 |
0 |
|
4 |
0 |
| Brown stony clay |
23 |
6 |
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27 |
6 |
| Ramble, with coal |
1 |
6 |
|
29 |
0 |
| White thill |
5 |
0 |
|
34 |
0 |
| Ramble and broken stone |
13 |
0 |
|
47 |
0 |
| Freestone |
27 |
0 |
|
74 |
0 |
| Blue metal |
0 |
8 |
|
74 |
8 |
| Freestone |
1 |
7 |
|
76 |
3 |
| Grey post |
2 |
0 |
|
78 |
3 |
| COAL |
0 |
9 |
|
79 |
0 |
| Thill |
2 |
0 |
|
81 |
0 |
| Freestone |
2 |
0 |
|
83 |
0 |
| Ramble |
1 |
0 |
|
84 |
0 |
| Freestone |
9 |
9 |
|
93 |
9 |
| Blue metal and ironstone girdles |
7 |
8 |
|
101 |
5 |
| COAL |
1 |
1 |
|
102 |
6 |
| Thill |
2 |
6 |
|
105 |
0 |
| Grey metal |
6 |
8 |
|
111 |
8 |
| Soft grey post and whin girdles |
5 |
4 |
|
117 |
0 |
| Blue metal |
3 |
7 |
|
120 |
7 |
| COAL |
0 |
1 |
|
120 |
8 |
| Thill |
4 |
8 |
|
125 |
4 |
| White and grey post and gullets |
9 |
10 |
|
135 |
2 |
| Blue metal |
7 |
7 |
|
142 |
9 |
| COAL (old waste, having been worked formerly) |
2 |
9 |
|
145 |
6 |
| White thill |
4 |
8 |
|
150 |
2 |
| Grey metal and whin girdles |
4 |
7 |
|
154 |
9 |
| Black metal |
0 |
4 |
|
155 |
1 |
| COAL, coarse splint |
1 |
4 |
|
156 |
5 |
| Black stone and coal |
2 |
4 |
|
158 |
9 |
| Strong white thill |
3 |
3 |
|
162 |
0 |
| Grey scamy post, broken |
1 |
0 |
|
163 |
0 |
| Blue metal stone, gullety and broken |
13 |
6 |
|
176 |
6 |
| Scamy grey post, gullety, with a little sulphur |
5 |
4 |
|
181 |
10 |
| Blue metal stone |
2 |
0 |
|
183 |
10 |
| Post girdle |
0 |
5 |
|
184 |
3 |
| Blue metal |
7 |
9 |
|
192 |
0 |
| Blue metal |
7 |
3 |
|
199 |
3 |
| COAL |
1 |
0 |
|
200 |
3 |
| Black thill |
2 |
0 |
|
202 |
3 |
| Strong thill and catheads |
3 |
9 |
|
206 |
0 |
| COAL |
0 |
8 |
|
206 |
8 |
| Strong thill and catheads |
2 |
5 |
|
209 |
1 |
| Grey metal stone, mild |
2 |
4 |
|
211 |
5 |
| Grey metal stone, strong, and softer |
4 |
1 |
|
215 |
6 |
| Strong white post, thready |
8 |
7 |
|
224 |
1 |
| Grey metal stone |
5 |
0 |
|
229 |
1 |
| Post girdle, broken |
1 |
5 |
|
230 |
6 |
| Blue and black metal |
11 |
2 |
|
241 |
8 |
| COAL |
1 |
0 |
|
242 |
8 |
| Strong thill |
5 |
0 |
|
247 |
8 |
| Grey metal stone |
5 |
0 |
|
252 |
8 |
| Strong grey post |
8 |
0 |
|
260 |
8 |
| Strong white post, with whin |
12 |
4 |
|
273 |
0 |
| Post girdles and metal partings |
1 |
4 |
|
274 |
4 |
| Strong scamy grey post |
32 |
2 |
|
306 |
6 |
| Strong grey metal stone, with whin |
5 |
8 |
|
312 |
2 |
| Blue metal |
2 |
2 |
|
314 |
4 |
| COAL, good |
1 |
6 |
|
315 |
10 |
| Black scamy stone and coal |
1 |
6 |
|
317 |
4 |
| Thill |
1 |
4 |
|
318 |
8 |
| Thill, mixed with metal |
10 |
4 |
|
329 |
0 |
| Black scamy metal |
2 |
0 |
|
331 |
0 |
| COAL |
3 |
0 |
|
334 |
0 |
| COAL, with scare bands |
1 |
8 |
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| Black metal |
0 |
5 |
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| COAL, with scare bands |
0 |
11 |
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| Black stone |
1 |
4 |
|
335 |
4 |
| Thill |
1 |
6 |
|
336 |
10 |
| Blue metal |
6 |
10 |
|
343 |
8 |
| Strong white post and whin |
12 |
0 |
|
355 |
8 |
| Strong white post, scamy |
2 |
0 |
|
357 |
8 |
| Strong white post and metal partings |
14 |
2 |
|
371 |
10 |
| Grey metal stone |
0 |
6 |
|
372 |
4 |
| White post |
5 |
10 |
|
378 |
2 |
| Strong grey metal stone |
1 |
8 |
|
379 |
10 |
| Black metal |
1 |
4 |
|
381 |
2 |
| COAL, very good |
2 |
7 |
|
383 |
9 |
| Thill and blue metal |
0 |
10 |
|
384 |
7 |
| Blue metal and metal stone |
7 |
4 |
|
391 |
11 |
| Blue metal, with whin girdles |
1 |
4 |
|
393 |
3 |
| Strong grey metal stone |
8 |
2 |
|
401 |
5 |
| COAL - Five-Quarter Seam |
3 |
5 |
|
404 |
10 |
| COAL, top |
1 |
2 |
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| Splint |
0 |
5 |
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| COAL |
1 |
10 |
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| Thill |
1 |
8 |
|
406 |
6 |
| Blue metal |
4 |
0 |
|
410 |
6 |
| Strong grey metal stone |
4 |
0 |
|
414 |
6 |
| Blue metal |
13 |
6 |
|
428 |
0 |
| Grey metal, with whin girdles |
3 |
0 |
|
431 |
0 |
| Whin |
2 |
3 |
|
433 |
3 |
| Post girdle |
1 |
0 |
|
434 |
3 |
| Coarse post |
2 |
3 |
|
436 |
6 |
| Grey metal stone |
0 |
10 |
|
437 |
4 |
| White post, with whin |
3 |
0 |
|
440 |
4 |
| Grey post |
3 |
0 |
|
443 |
4 |
| Grey metal stone |
1 |
4 |
|
444 |
8 |
| Post girdle |
1 |
0 |
|
445 |
8 |
| Grey metal stone |
10 |
4 |
|
456 |
0 |
| White post |
1 |
0 |
|
457 |
0 |
| Post, much mixed with whin |
6 |
0 |
|
463 |
0 |
| Blue metal, with lumps |
19 |
8 |
|
482 |
8 |
| COAL - High Main Seam |
6 |
4 |
|
489 |
0 |
| COAL |
0 |
0 |
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| Band |
0 |
0 |
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| COAL, kirving |
0 |
0 |
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| Band |
0 |
0 |
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| COAL, ground |
0 |
0 |
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| Thill |
4 |
0 |
|
493 |
0 |
| In grey metal stone |
2 |
6 |
|
495 |
6 |
| Outset of shaft above surface |
7 |
0 |
|
502 |
6 |
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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 1527 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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