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Penshaw Colliery

Whitfield Pit

Account of Strata sunk through in the D or Whitfield Pit, Penshaw Colliery. October 30th, 1830

Shaft Details

Sunk: 30 Oct 1830

Approximate surface level 170 feet above sea (Ordnance datum)

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Geology encountered   Thickness   Depth
  ft. in.   ft. in.
Outset    18  0     18  0
Clay and marl    31  4     49  4
Soft blue stone    38  9     88  1
COAL    0  8     88  9
Thill    3  0     91  9
Band    0  4     92  1
Thill    1  2     93  3
Freestone    19  10     113  1
Strong blue stone    10  8     123  9
Freestone    4  6     128  3
COAL    0  6     128  9
Thill    4  5     133  2
Hard blue stone    27  2     160  4
Strong white post    4  3     164  7
Strong blue stone    5  5     170  0
Strong blue stone    33  6     203  6
Strong white post    4  2     207  8
Strong blue metal and iron girdles    28  0     235  8
Strong white post    2  5     238  1
Soft blue stone    5  0     243  1
COAL    0  8     243  9
Thill    4  2     247  11
Freestone    14  7     262  6
White post    7  0     269  6
Soft blue metal stone    20  4     289  10
Strong post stone    50  4     340  2
Blue stone    3  5     343  7
White post    4  1     347  8
Blue metal stone    9  5     357  1
COAL    1  11     359  0
Thill    3  0     362  0
Strong blue stone    5  7     367  7
Soft blue stone    20  5     388  0
COAL - Three-Quarter Seam    2  6     390  6
White post    23  7     414  1
Strong blue stone    4  11     419  0
Strong post stone    8  0     427  0
Strong blue stone    18  2     445  2
Mild post stone    30  2     475  4
COAL - Five-Quarter Seam    3  6     478  10
Thill    2  6     481  4
Blue stone    16  10     498  2
Strong white post    16  11     515  1
Blue stone    21  0     536  1
COAL - Main Coal Seam    6  0     542  1
Blue stone    8  4     550  5
Strong white post    15  2     565  7
Soft blue stone    23  8     589  3
Strong white post    6  7     595  10
Blue stone    2  3     598  1
COAL - Maudlin Seam    5  0     603  1
Thill    0  6     603  7
COAL, bottom    0  11     604  6
Blue stone    27  9     632  3
COAL    0  9     633  0
Blue stone    9  10     642  10
White post    9  0     651  10
Blue stone    5  9     657  7
White post    1  6     659  1
Blue stone    9  0     668  1
White post    5  6     673  7
Blue stone    7  3     680  10
COAL    0  7     681  5
Blue stone    9  6     690  11
Post girdle    3  6     694  5
Blue stone    5  3     699  8
White post    11  6     711  2
Blue stone    7  10     719  0
COAL - Hutton Seam    3  7     722  7
To bottom of Engine Shaft    78  0     800  7

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 1528 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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