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Shilbottle Colliery

Engine Pit

Section of the Strata at the Engine, New East or Furnace Pit, Shilbottle Colliery, 2½ miles South of Alnwick, 1807

Shaft Details

Sunk: 1807, Closed: 1982

Approximate surface level 395 feet above sea (Ordnance datum)

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Geology encountered   Thickness   Depth
  ft. in.   ft. in.
Clay    16  0     16  0
Freestone    60  0     76  0
Blue slate    42  0     118  0
Blue limestone - Eight Yard Limestone    24  0     142  0
COAL    0  4     142  4
Thill    1  0     143  4
Freestone    11  11     155  3
COAL    3  6     158  9
    COAL    1  0       
    Thill    1  6       
    COAL    1  0       
Thill    1  0     159  9
Main freestone    13  1     172  10
Main slate    42  0     214  10
Blue limestone - SixYard Limestone    18  0     232  10
COAL    0  6     233  4
Thill    2  6     235  10
Freestone    9  0     244  10
Metal    6  0     250  10
Blue limestone    2  0     252  10
COAL    0  4     253  2
Thill    6  8     259  10
Ironstone    0  6     260  4
Rough stone    12  0     272  4
COAL - Shilbottle Seam    2  7     274  11
Sump:—    0  0     274  11
Grey thill    2  6     277  5
Grey metal stone    4  0     281  5
Blue metal stone    18  9     300  2
Hard stone, with water    3  0     303  2
Grey metal stone    12  0     315  2
Black stone    0  9     315  11
COAL    0  1     316  0
Black stone    0  2     316  2
White thill    0  6     316  8

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 1754 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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