Shilbottle Colliery

Town Pit

Section of the Strata in the Staple or Town Pit, Shilbotttle Colliery, sunk in Scott's Half-Acre for a Smoke Pit, 6 feet in diameter, 1844

Shaft Details

Sunk: 1844, Closed: 1982

Approximate surface level 420 feet above sea (Ordnance datum)

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Geology encountered	Thickness		Depth
	ft.	in.	ft.	in.
Clay	11	0	11	0
Freestone - The Town Head Thill	55	0	66	0
Metal, with freestone bands	30	0	96	0
Clean metal, with nodules of ironstone	51	0	147	0
Limestone - Eight Yard Limestone	24	0	171	0
COAL	0	6	171	6
Grey thill	1	6	173	0
Beddy freestone	6	6	179	6
COAL	0	8	180	2
Grey thill	2	6	182	8
Freestone	8	0	190	8
Blue metal	43	0	233	8
Limestone - Six Yard Limestone	18	0	251	8
COAL	0	6	252	2
Thill	3	0	255	2
Freestone	8	6	263	8
Blue metal	6	0	269	8
Limestone - Little Limestone	1	10	271	6
COAL and dant	0	3	271	9
Seggar clay	6	0	277	9
Roof stone, but did not sink lower, stone drift being set away at this level	0	0	277	9

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 1757 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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