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Geology encountered   Thickness   Depth   ft. in.   ft. in. Clay    39  0     39  0 High Coal Hazle    39  9     78  9 Plate    2  6     81  3 Low Coal Hazle    24  9     106  0 Plate and grey beds    11  9     117  9 Great Limestone. To drift, but not to bottom of limestone    45  3     163  0 NOTE: This shaft is marked on the Ordnance Map as an Old Limekiln, and is a very old shaft, but not the shaft sunk by the Lead Company in 1835, which was 90 feet further East, but in the same vein. The neap is taken away.    0  0     163  0

Source: An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Supplement, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1910

  original entry for sinking/boring number 2845 in "An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Supplement, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1910"

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