Shoreswood Colliery
Account of Strata sunk through at Messrs. Carr & Co.'s Shoreswood Colliery, near Berwick, North Northumberland, in 1843
Shaft Details
Sunk: 1843
Approximate surface level 276 feet above sea (Ordnance datum)
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| Geology encountered |
Thickness |
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Depth |
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ft. |
in. |
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ft. |
in. |
| Soil |
0 |
9 |
|
0 |
9 |
| Soft white freestone |
63 |
3 |
|
64 |
0 |
| White freestone, with partings |
46 |
0 |
|
110 |
0 |
| Soft tills, with water |
7 |
6 |
|
117 |
6 |
| White freestone, with water |
2 |
6 |
|
120 |
0 |
| Dark blue metal |
14 |
3 |
|
134 |
3 |
| COAL - Main Coal or Bulman Seam |
7 |
7 |
|
141 |
10 |
| COAL |
0 |
8 |
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| Grey stone |
0 |
8 |
|
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| COAL |
1 |
4 |
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| Chalk stone |
0 |
1 |
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| Hard grey stone |
1 |
10 |
|
|
|
| COAL, splint |
1 |
4 |
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| COAL, ground |
0 |
8 |
|
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| Chalk stone |
0 |
1 |
|
|
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| COAL, sooty |
0 |
11 |
|
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| Blue metal |
1 |
0 |
|
142 |
10 |
| Hard tills |
2 |
2 |
|
145 |
0 |
| Soft tills |
1 |
4 |
|
146 |
4 |
| COAL |
3 |
4 |
|
149 |
8 |
| COAL |
1 |
2 |
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| Limestone |
1 |
3 |
|
|
|
| COAL |
0 |
11 |
|
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| Blue metal |
3 |
11 |
|
153 |
7 |
| COAL |
0 |
11 |
|
154 |
6 |
| Grey stone |
1 |
2 |
|
155 |
8 |
| Blue metal |
8 |
0 |
|
163 |
8 |
| Limestone |
2 |
10 |
|
166 |
6 |
| COAL |
0 |
9 |
|
167 |
3 |
| Blue metal |
2 |
4 |
|
169 |
7 |
| Grey stone |
0 |
8 |
|
170 |
3 |
| COAL |
2 |
10 |
|
173 |
1 |
| COAL |
0 |
10 |
|
|
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| Grey stone |
0 |
8 |
|
|
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| COAL |
1 |
4 |
|
|
|
| Metal |
5 |
8 |
|
178 |
9 |
| Freestone |
8 |
1 |
|
186 |
10 |
| Dark blue metal |
4 |
0 |
|
190 |
10 |
| Soft white freestone |
2 |
1 |
|
192 |
11 |
| Dark grey stone |
4 |
9 |
|
197 |
8 |
| Dark blue metal |
1 |
0 |
|
198 |
8 |
| COAL |
0 |
5 |
|
199 |
1 |
| Dark blue metal |
1 |
10 |
|
200 |
11 |
| Limestone |
0 |
5 |
|
201 |
4 |
| Freestone |
1 |
11 |
|
203 |
3 |
| Hard grey stone, with water |
7 |
2 |
|
210 |
5 |
| Dark blue metal |
12 |
0 |
|
222 |
5 |
| White freestone |
3 |
9 |
|
226 |
2 |
| Soft tills |
1 |
0 |
|
227 |
2 |
| Hard white freestone |
3 |
0 |
|
230 |
2 |
| Light blue metal |
8 |
2 |
|
238 |
4 |
| Limestone |
1 |
11 |
|
240 |
3 |
| COAL |
2 |
0 |
|
242 |
3 |
| COAL |
1 |
0 |
|
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| Grey soft stone or middle stone |
0 |
4 |
|
|
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| COAL |
0 |
8 |
|
|
|
| Metal |
0 |
5 |
|
242 |
8 |
| Grey stone or macker |
2 |
1 |
|
244 |
9 |
| COAL - Three-Quarter Coal |
2 |
1 |
|
246 |
10 |
| Black metal |
3 |
0 |
|
249 |
10 |
| COAL |
0 |
2 |
|
250 |
1 |
| Light blue metal |
0 |
4 |
|
250 |
5 |
| Dark brown limestone |
1 |
4 |
|
251 |
9 |
| Soft metal |
0 |
8 |
|
252 |
5 |
| COAL |
0 |
5 |
|
252 |
10 |
| Metal |
1 |
0 |
|
253 |
10 |
| Limestone |
3 |
0 |
|
256 |
10 |
| COAL - Cooper Eye Seam |
3 |
3 |
|
260 |
2 |
| COAL |
1 |
4 |
|
|
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| Midstone (dark blue metal) |
0 |
9 |
|
|
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| COAL |
1 |
2½ |
|
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| Soft light blue metal |
3 |
2 |
|
263 |
4 |
| Dark brown limestone |
0 |
10 |
|
264 |
2 |
| Dark blue metal |
0 |
10 |
|
265 |
0 |
| Dark blue metal |
0 |
8 |
|
265 |
8 |
| Hard flinty mottled stone, sparry and jointy |
3 |
1 |
|
268 |
9 |
| Dark blue metal |
1 |
10 |
|
270 |
7 |
| Soft light blue metal |
0 |
8 |
|
271 |
3 |
| Dark blue metal |
4 |
3 |
|
275 |
6 |
| Hard freestone band |
0 |
4 |
|
275 |
10 |
| Blue metal, with ½-inch ironstone bands |
2 |
1 |
|
277 |
11 |
| Dark blue limestone |
0 |
7 |
|
278 |
6 |
| Soft dark blue metal |
0 |
6 |
|
279 |
0 |
| COAL |
0 |
2 |
|
279 |
2 |
| Soft blue metal |
1 |
8 |
|
280 |
10 |
| White freestone band |
0 |
2 |
|
281 |
0 |
| Soft light blue metal |
0 |
4 |
|
281 |
4 |
| Hard flinty freestone |
1 |
2 |
|
282 |
6 |
| Soft blue metal, with balls of ironstone |
1 |
6 |
|
284 |
0 |
| COAL |
0 |
2 |
|
284 |
2 |
| Dark blue metal, with balls of ironstone |
3 |
6 |
|
287 |
8 |
| Soft light blue metal, with hard balls |
5 |
4 |
|
293 |
0 |
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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 1812 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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