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Talkin Colliery

Dove Pit

Sunk and Bored at the Dove Pit, in Talkin Colliery

Shaft Details

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Geology encountered   Thickness   Depth
  ft. in.   ft. in.
Sunk:—    0  0     0  0
Clay, mixed with tumbling stones    30  0     30  0
Blue plate    7  0     37  0
Brown post girdles    1  0     38  0
Blne metal stone    41  0     79  0
Bored:—    0  0     79  0
Strong dun white post    4  0     83  0
Blue plate    18  10     101  10
Strong dun post    5  2     107  0
Blue plate    11  4     118  4
Strong brown post    3  8     122  0
Strong yellow post    4  1     126  1
Cashy parting, 3 ins. brown post, with yellow gullets    12  8     138  9
White post girdles    2  9     141  6
Brown post    2  6     144  0
Grey post girdles    3  4     147  4
Brown post girdles    5  0     152  4
Blue metal    1  0     153  4
Grey post girdles    1  6     154  10
Blue plate    28  8     183  6
Limestone, with gullets    12  0     195  6
Add error    0  6     196  0
Yellow post girdles    1  6     197  6
COAL    0  5     197  11
Grey thill    1  6     199  5
Blue plate    6  8     206  1
COAL - Craw Coal Seam    0  8     206  9
Blue plate thill    1  0     207  9
Grey plate    5  0     212  9
Blue plate    1  6     214  3
Grey plate    2  7     216  10
Blue plate    1  8     218  6
Grey plate    3  0     221  6
Blue plate    15  2     236  8
COAL    3  4     240  0

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 1922 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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