Roachburn Colliery

Pumping Shaft

Account of Strata sunk through in the Roachburn Pumping Shaft

Shaft Details

Closed: 1908

Approximate surface level 680 feet above sea (Ordnance datum)

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Geology encountered	Thickness		Depth
	ft.	in.	ft.	in.
Grey beds	13	6	13	6
Freestone	16	6	30	0
Plate	16	6	46	6
Freestone	7	6	54	0
Plate	10	0	64	0
Grey beds	15	6	79	6
Plate	7	0	86	6
Freestone	24	0	110	6
Grey beds	13	6	124	0
Plate	24	6	148	6
Little Limestone	15	0	163	6
Freestone	21	0	184	6
COAL	5	2	189	8
Plate	0	4	190	0
Freestone	3	0	193	0

Source: An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Supplement, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1910

original entry for sinking/boring number 2927 in "An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Supplement, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1910"

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