Museum
Friends of Durham Mining Museum
Events Calendar
e-Books and Books for sale
Photograph Gallery
Document Archive
Master Name Index
Discussion Forums
What's new in the site

Mining History
Colliery Index
Colliery Index
Shaft cross sections
Borings and Sinkings
List of Mines
Colliery Managers
Abandoned Seams
Colliery Maps
Company Overviews
Who's Who
Mineral Information
Managers Certificates
Educational Material
Bibliography
Statistics
Workers/Employee Lists
Notes for Family Historians

Disaster Reports
Names of those killed
Disasters in the 1700s
Disasters in the 1800s
Disasters in the 1900s
Memorials
Awards for Gallantry

Links to other sites of interest
Industrial Heritage Days Out
Former www.pitwork.net site

View our Guestbook

Index to site

Contact and address details


 Shafts  Index  Shafts 

Shotton Colliery

North Pit

Account of Strata sunk through in the North Pit, Shotton Colliery. Commenced November 18th, 1840

Shaft Details

Sunk: 18 Nov 1840, Closed: 01 Sep 1972

Approximate surface level 460 feet above sea (Ordnance datum)

Switch to measurements in:  fathoms, feet & inches, or metres

























































































































































Geology encountered   Thickness   Depth
  ft. in.   ft. in.
Outset walling    12  2     12  2
Soil    1  0     13  2
Clay, mixed with sand, gravel, and stones    59  3     72  5
Light yellow limestone    66  0     138  5
Strong brown limestone    21  0     159  5
Light yellow limestone    36  0     195  5
Strong brown limestone (first water at this parting)    12  0     207  5
Strong light brown limestone, with more water    77  0     284  5
Very strong grey limestone, with white partings and water    58  0     342  5
Mild yellow limestone, with gullets    29  0     371  5
Strong brown limestone, irregular, with more gullets    11  7     383  0
Strong blue limestone    2  4     385  4
Strong yellow limestone, mixed with blue alternately    3  0     388  4
Strong blue limestone, in thin panels, mixed    2  0     390  4
Blue and grey metal    1  4     391  8
Yellow sand, with water    27  0     418  8
Strong yellow sand or post    10  0     428  8
Blue and brown post girdles    2  6     431  2
Soft blue metal    3  3     434  5
Soft blue metal, scared with black    2  9     437  2
Soft red metal    2  9     439  11
Strong black stone    0  6     440  5
Soft blue metal    0  9     441  2
Red metal    4  6     445  8
Mild red and grey post (two wedging cribs laid in this post for a permanent foundation)    2  9     448  5
Blue whin girdles    1  4     449  9
Mild grey metal    9  7     459  4
Mild grey post girdles    0  8     460  0
Mild grey post girdles    1  10     461  10
Blue metal, scared with red    3  7     465  5
Mild grey post girdles    1  3     466  8
Blue metal, soft at bottom    3  3     469  11
COAL    2  7     472  6
Thill    0  9     473  3
Red and grey metal    8  0     481  3
Grey post girdle    1  0     482  3
Coarse white post    12  0     494  3
Strong white and red post    19  0     513  3
COAL    1  2     514  5
Thill    0  4     514  9
Strong grey thill    4  6     519  3
Grey metal    1  3     520  6
White post girdles and water    1  0     521  6
Grey metal    1  11     523  5
White post girdles    0  10     524  3
Blue metal, with girdles    8  0     532  3
COAL    0  10     533  1
Thill, with scares of coal    0  7     533  8
Grey metal, with girdles    5  0     538  8
Red and blue metal, with red and grey post    3  0     541  8
Grey post    7  0     548  8
White post, with water    1  6     550  2
Grey metal    1  0     551  2
White post with whin, and mixed with red partings (lowest feeder in this post)    46  6     597  8
Black stone    0  3     597  11
Soft thill stone    1  6     599  5
Blue metal    4  5     603  10
Grey post    21  10     625  8
Dark metal, with ironstone girdles    20  0     645  8
Strong grey metal    10  11     656  7
Mild grey metal    7  7     664  2
Strong grey metal, with post girdles    18  2     682  4
Black stone    0  3     682  7
COAL, splint    1  0     683  7
Strong thill and metal    3  0     686  7
Strong grey metal    3  0     689  7
Strong grey metal, with post girdles    14  8     704  3
Blue metal, mixed with black    9  8     713  11
COAL    0  3     714  2
Black stone, with coal    2  9     716  11
COAL - Three-Quarter Seam    4  1     721  1
    COAL, splint    0  3       
    COAL, good    1  8       
    Metal band    0         
    COAL, good    1  0       
    Metal band    0         
    COAL, coarse    0         
    Metal band    0  2       
    COAL, coarse    0  3       
Grey metal, with ironstone balls    4  8     725  9
Blue metal, with ironstone girdles    12  9     738  6
Mild grey post    12  6     751  0
Mild grey metal, soft at bottom    8  10     759  10
Black stone    0  1     759  11
COAL - Five-Quarter Seam    3  10     763  10
    COAL, splint    0  3       
    COAL, coarse    0         
    COAL, good    3  4       
Strong thill stone    2  5     766  3
Dark metal    0  9     767  1
Grey metal    1  3     768  4
Dark metal and coal bands    1  8     770  0
COAL    3  6     773  6
    COAL    0  3       
    Grey metal    1  8       
    COAL    1  7       
Thill stone    1  8     775  2
Grey metal    2  1     777  3
Grey post    3  0     780  3
Grey metal    7  4     787  7
Grey post    13  4     800  11
Grey metal    1  4     802  3
Strong white post    17  4     819  7
Black metal partings    0  3     819  10
Strong white post    20  2     840  0
COAL - Main Coal Seam    2  3     842  3
Thill stone    0  3     842  6
Strong green metal, with thin post girdles    27  1     869  7
Blue metal    1  3     870  10
Black stone    1  5     872  3
COAL, with stone    0  6     872  9
Thill stone    0  9     873  6
Grey metal    32  6     906  0
White post, with metal partings    26  7     932  7
Mild grey post    36  0     968  7
Strong white post    18  0     986  7
COAL - Low Main Seam    3  0     989  7
Thill stone    0  6     990  1
Strong grey metal    26  3     1016  4
Black stone    3  6     1019  10
Dark metal, with scares of coal    15  3     1035  1
COAL - Brass Thill Seam    0  8     1035  9
Thill stone    0  4     1036  1
Grey post girdles, with beds of strong grey metal    10  0     1046  1
COAL, strong and coarse    0  2     1046  3
Grey post, with very strong post girdles and grey metal    22  0     1068  3
Mild grey post, with beds of metal    6  6     1074  9
Black stone    0  4     1075  1
COAL - Hutton Seam    5  4     1080  6
    COAL, top    1  6       
    Stone    0  2       
    COAL, good    2  5       
    Band    0         
    COAL, bottom    1  3       

Source: An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Volume S-T, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1894

  original entry for sinking/boring number 1820 in "An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Volume S-T, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1894"

  main page for Shotton Colliery

 


Mail:
Webmaster

Back

Home
Copyright © 1999-2008 by The Durham Mining Museum and its contributors
Registered Charity No: 1110608
Page last updated: 01 Mar 2008


Search

Print