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 |
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Depth |
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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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