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Rotherhope Fell (Lead Ore)

Account of Strata sunk through at Rotherhope Fell Mine, South Tyne Valley

Shaft Details

Approximate surface level 1250 feet above sea (Ordnance datum)

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Geology encountered   Thickness   Depth
  ft. in.   ft. in.
Hazle    10  0     10  0
Plate    7  0     17  0
Upper Slate Sill    24  0     41  0
Plate    7  6     48  6
Lower Slate Sill    21  0     69  6
Plate    30  0     99  6
Hazle or hard slate    9  0     108  6
Plate    21  0     129  6
Ironstone and coal    4  6     134  0
Fire-stone    33  0     167  0
Plate    24  0     191  0
White hazle    8  0     199  0
Plate    13  0     212  0
Girdle beds    6  0     218  0
Plate    13  0     231  0
Pattinson's Sill    12  0     243  0
Plate    18  0     261  0
Little Limestone    9  0     270  0
Plate    18  0     288  0
COAL    1  2     289  2
High Coal Sill    5  0     294  2
Plate    10  0     304  2
COAL    0  6     304  8
Low Coal Sill    5  2     309  10
Plate    7  0     316  10
Great Limestone    43  0     359  10
Tuft or Water Sill    18  0     377  10
Plate    20  6     398  4
Limestone Post    2  0     400  4
Quarry Hazle    30  0     430  4
Plate    32  0     462  4
Till bed    8  0     470  4
Four Fathoms Limestone    24  0     494  4
Nattrass Gill Hazle    17  0     511  4
Plate    33  0     544  4
Three Yards Limestone    9  0     553  4
Six Fathoms Hazle    40  0     593  4
Plate    10  0     603  4
Five Yards Limestone    15  0     618  4
Slaty hazle    13  0     631  4
Plate    18  0     649  4
Scar Limestone    30  0     679  4
Plate    2  6     681  10
Hazle    12  0     693  10
Plate and grey beds    10  0     703  10
Hazle    2  6     706  4
Cockle-shell Limestone    2  0     708  4
Plate and grey beds    2  6     710  10
Single Post Limestone    9  0     719  10
Plate    6  0     725  10
Hazle    11  0     736  10
Alternating strata    21  0     757  10
Plate    9  0     766  10
Hazle    3  6     770  4
Plate    1  0     771  4
Hazle    3  0     774  4
Plate    1  0     775  4
Hazle    3  0     778  4
Plate    1  0     779  4
Hazle    2  6     781  10
Plate    4  0     785  10
Hazle    0  8     786  6
Plate    0  6     787  0
Hazle    0  8     787  8
Plate    2  0     789  8
Grey beds    2  0     791  8
Plate    4  6     796  2
Tyne-Bottom Limestone    19  0     815  2
Whetstone Bed    3  3     818  5
Whin Sill    192  0     1010  5
Pencil bed    2  0     1012  5

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 2376 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"

  main page for Rotherhope Fell (Lead Ore)

 


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