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Rodridge Colliery

Account of Strata sunk and bored through at Rodridge or South Wingate Colliery, near Castle Eden, Durham, in 1841, and subsequently

Shaft Details

Sunk: 1841

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Geology encountered   Thickness   Depth
  ft. in.   ft. in.
Soil    1  0     1  0
Clay    30  0     31  0
Dry sand    33  0     64  0
Wet sand    36  0     100  0
Clay    12  0     112  0
Clay and gravel    18  0     130  0
Clay    15  0     145  0
Red clay    6  0     151  0
Marl    9  0     160  0
Strong limestone, with marly partings    6  0     166  0
Soft limestone, with stone girdles    148  0     314  0
Strong limestone, with water    136  0     450  0
Strong limestone, with water    106  0     556  0
Irregular blue limestone    4  0     560  0
Limestone    12  0     572  0
Blue limestone    5  0     577  0
Limestone    9  0     586  0
Blue limestone    3  0     589  0
Grey metal    3  11     592  11
Sand    31  0     623  11
White post    4  6     628  5
Dark blue metal    2  2     630  7
White post    2  10     633  5
Blue metal    0  5     633  10
Blue metal, scared with red    12  0     645  10
Grey metal    6  0     651  10
COAL - Five-Quarter Seam    0  3     652  1
    COAL, coarse splinty    0  3       
Grey metal    8  6     660  7
White post, with black partings    14  10     675  5
Dark blue metal    1  8     677  1
Dark blue metal    0  7     677  8
White post    0  3     677  11
COAL - Main Coal Seam    1  11     679  10
    COAL    0         
    Band    0  3       
    COAL    1  6       
Grey metal    5  0     684  10
Dark post    0  8     685  6
Grey metal    1  5     686  11
COAL, bottom    2  10     689  9
Grey metal stone    6  4     696  1
White post    3  0     699  1
Brown post, very irregular    2  6     701  7
White post, with grey metal partings    17  10     719  5
Black grey metal, scared with coal    1  4     720  9
COAL - Low Main Seam    4  9     725  7
    COAL, top    0  6       
    Grey metal band    0  1       
    COAL    0         
    Scares    0         
    COAL    1         
    Hard stone band    0         
    Dark grey metal    0  2       
    COAL    0  10½       
    Hard stone band    0         
    COAL    0  11¼       
Grey metal    10  3     735  10
White post metal    10  3     746  1
Strong grey post    17  0     763  1
Grey metal, with post girdles    6  11     770  0
Grey metal    0  9     770  9
COAL - Hutton Seam    1  1     771  10
Grey post    5  4     777  2
Grey metal    5  4     782  6
COAL - Harvey Seam    1  9     784  3
Grey metal    12  4     796  7
COAL, foul    0  6     797  1
Thill stone    2  0     799  1
Grey metal    2  2     801  3
Black metal    12  6     813  9
Grey metal    10  3     824  0
White post girdles    0  9     824  9
Blue metal, with ironstone girdles    6  4     831  1
COAL, foul    0  3     831  4
Dark grey metal, with post girdles    15  6     846  10
COAL, foul    0  4     847  2
Grey metal    6  3     853  5
White post girdles    1  3     854  8
Grey metal stone, with post girdles    19  0     873  8
White grey post, with balls of brown whin and thin metal partings    21  0     894  8
Blue stone    0  3     894  11
COAL, foul    0  5     895  4
Thill stone    1  0     896  4
Grey metal    12  0     908  4
Strong white post, with dark shiny partings    32  3     940  7
Dark blue metal stone, with ironstone balls    9  3     949  10
White post, with black metal partings    4  9     954  7
Strong white post    14  0     968  7
Strong grey metal stone    1  0     969  7
Dark blue metal    7  0     976  7
Black stone    1  0     977  7
COAL, foul    0  7     978  2
Grey metal, scared with coal    2  0     980  2
Grey metal stone, with post girdles    5  9     985  11
COAL    0  3     986  2
Grey metal, with post girdles    3  8     989  10
Strong white post    7  8     997  6
Grey metal stone, with post girdle    11  9     1009  3
Black metal    1  6     1010  9
COAL    0  10     1011  7
Grey metal    0  8     1012  3
White post, scared with red near bottom    61  4     1073  7
Grey metal stone, with girdles    16  10     1090  5
Grey metal, scared with girdles    0  10     1091  3
COAL    0  7     1091  10
White post, with metal partings    10  6     1102  4
Darkish grey metal, with post girdles    30  11     1133  3
Black metal    1  0     1134  3
Dark metal, mixed with coal    0  9     1135  0
Grey metal    1  2     1136  2
Whin    2  4     1138  6
Grey metal    1  6     1140  0
White post, mixed with whin    2  10     1142  10
Grey metal stone, with post girdles    6  5     1149  3
Grey post    11  10     1161  1
Grey metal stone    6  4     1167  5
Strong grey post    1  6     1168  11
White grey stone    12  0     1180  11
Strong grey post, with metal partings    7  1     1188  0
Grey metal, with girdles    4  10     1192  10
COAL, slaty    1  3     1194  1
Grey metal, scared with coal    0  5     1194  6
Into white post    28  8     1223  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 1609 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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