Seaton Burn Colliery
Engine Pit
Sunk at Seaton Burn Colliery, Engine Pit. 1844
Shaft Details
Sunk: 1844, Closed: 17 Aug 1965
Approximate surface level 218 feet above sea (Ordnance datum)
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| Geology encountered |
Thickness |
|
Depth |
| |
ft. |
in. |
|
ft. |
in. |
| Strong blue metal |
61 |
0 |
|
61 |
0 |
| Freestone |
27 |
0 |
|
88 |
0 |
| Grey metal |
12 |
10 |
|
100 |
10 |
| COAL - High Main Seam |
6 |
0 |
|
106 |
10 |
| White thill and post girdles |
1 |
6 |
|
108 |
4 |
| Dark grey metal and post girdle |
9 |
6 |
|
117 |
10 |
| COAL |
0 |
5 |
|
118 |
3 |
| Black stone |
6 |
8 |
|
124 |
11 |
| Grey post |
1 |
6 |
|
126 |
5 |
| White post |
4 |
8 |
|
131 |
1 |
| Dark post |
8 |
8 |
|
139 |
9 |
| White post, with whin |
8 |
3 |
|
148 |
0 |
| Blue stone |
6 |
8 |
|
154 |
8 |
| COAL - Grey Seam |
3 |
3 |
|
157 |
11 |
| COAL and band |
3 |
3 |
|
|
|
| White thill and blue stone |
3 |
3 |
|
161 |
2 |
| COAL |
0 |
6 |
|
161 |
8 |
| White shill and post |
3 |
3 |
|
164 |
11 |
| Black metal and post girdle |
9 |
8 |
|
174 |
7 |
| Grey metal |
3 |
3 |
|
177 |
10 |
| Blue metal |
1 |
7 |
|
179 |
5 |
| COAL - Yard Coal |
3 |
0 |
|
182 |
5 |
| Black stone and grey metal |
7 |
8 |
|
190 |
1 |
| Blue metal |
8 |
8 |
|
198 |
9 |
| White and black stone |
4 |
6 |
|
203 |
3 |
| Blue metal and water |
14 |
9 |
|
218 |
0 |
| Blue metal and water |
4 |
4 |
|
222 |
4 |
| Black stone |
3 |
2 |
|
225 |
6 |
| COAL and Band |
2 |
9 |
|
228 |
3 |
| Grey metal |
1 |
5 |
|
229 |
8 |
| Post, with partings |
65 |
6 |
|
295 |
2 |
| COAL and black stone |
1 |
0 |
|
296 |
2 |
| Dark grey metal |
4 |
0 |
|
300 |
2 |
| COAL and dark grey metal |
3 |
10 |
|
304 |
0 |
| Post, with metal partings |
7 |
9 |
|
311 |
9 |
| Grey metal, with black stone |
5 |
0 |
|
316 |
9 |
| Blue and grey metal post, with whin girdles |
9 |
10 |
|
326 |
7 |
| Whin |
2 |
1 |
|
328 |
8 |
| Blue metal, with whin girdles |
7 |
10 |
|
336 |
6 |
| Freestone and mussel bed |
2 |
2 |
|
338 |
8 |
| Blue metal stone, with post and whin girdles |
9 |
10 |
|
348 |
6 |
| COAL - Low Main Seam |
3 |
11 |
|
352 |
5 |
|
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 1680 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"
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