Shafts	Index	Shafts

Geology encountered   Thickness   Depth   m.   m. Soil    0.30     0.30 Yellow clay    0.91     1.22 Blue leafy clay    2.13     3.35 Blue gravelly clay    20.12     23.47 Blue gravelly clay    0.97     24.43 Red clay    3.05     27.48 Soft blue metal stone and a little water    2.74     30.22 COAL    0.08     30.30 Dark grey metal or thill and a little water    2.29     32.59 COAL    0.08     32.66 Dark grey metal or thill    3.73     36.40 COAL and a little water    0.10     36.50 Strong dark and grey metal, mixed with post    2.79     39.29 Strong grey post and water    2.39     41.68 Grey metal    5.49     47.17 Black metal    0.13     47.29 COAL    0.30     47.60 Thill or grey metal    1.27     48.87 Post girdle    0.25     49.12 Grey metal post girdles and a little water    4.32     53.44 White post girdle and water    1.04     54.48 Black metal    0.84     55.32 COAL    0.10     55.42 Thill    3.05     58.47 Grey post    0.97     59.43 Grey metal    0.76     60.20 Grey post, with black partings    0.81     61.01 Blue metal    1.73     62.74 COAL    0.36     63.09 Dark grey shale    1.37     64.46 Grey metal    3.05     67.51 COAL    0.61     68.12     COAL    0.36          Grey metal band    0.10          COAL    0.15      Post, with whin girdles and water    2.13     70.25 Grey metal and water    1.02     71.27 COAL    0.30     71.57     COAL    0.15          Band    0.08          COAL    0.08      Grey metal, with post girdles    2.54     74.11 COAL    0.08     74.19 Grey metal    1.57     75.77 COAL    0.05     75.82 Grey metal, with whin, post girdles, and water    7.19     83.00 COAL    0.86     83.87     COAL    0.41          Brassy band    0.08          COAL    0.41      Grey shale    1.22     85.09 Grey metal, with post girdles and water    4.60     89.68 Post and water on rise side of pit    2.74     92.43 Post and water on south side of pit    10.97     103.40 Dark grey metal    3.66     107.06 COAL    0.51     107.56 Grey metal or shale    1.22     108.78 Grey post and water    1.57     110.36 White post, with metal partings and water    35.56     145.92 Dark grey metal    4.95     150.87 COAL    0.20     151.07 Dark grey metal or thill    4.95     156.03 COAL    0.13     156.15 Brown shale    0.15     156.31 Grey post, with metal partings and water    2.24     158.54 Very damp red and white post    16.36     174.90 COAL, stony    0.08     174.97 Soft grey metal or thill stone    2.13     177.11 Strong black metal, mixed with catheads    0.43     177.54 COAL    0.05     177.59 Strong light coloured grey post, with metal partings and whin girdles, also a bleeding of water    3.05     180.64 Dark grey metal    3.23     183.89 COAL    0.51     184.40     COAL    0.05          Black band    0.05          COAL    0.10          Black band    0.05          COAL    0.28      Grey metal stone, with whin girdles    8.33     192.73 Dark grey metal, with ironstone girdles    4.83     197.55 COAL, foul    0.13     197.66 Thill or dark grey metal    0.76     198.42 Dark grey metal stone, with a surfeit and a bleeding of water    3.66     202.07 COAL    0.13     202.23 Grey metal    0.51     202.73 White post, with whin girdles and water    7.59     210.30 COAL    0.43     210.76     COAL, good    0.10          COAL, black    0.33      Thill or grey metal    0.79     211.52 COAL    0.15     211.68 Dark grey metal stone, with post and whin girdles and water, and coal pipes at bottom of bed    4.29     215.99 White post, with metal partings    4.27     220.23 Grey metal    0.41     220.64 COAL    0.91     221.56     COAL, strong and good    0.76          Splint    0.15      Grey metal    0.46     222.01 Strong white post, with whin in places and water    13.31     235.30 Black stone    0.10     235.40 COAL, black slaty    0.46     235.86 Grey metal, with post girdles    4.78     240.63 Black metal, with ironstone girdles    0.91     241.54 COAL    0.05     241.57 Dark grey metal, with post and whin girdles    4.90     246.47 Hard white post, much mixed with whin in beds, also very coarse in the grain and much mixed with small metal and ironstone balls of various colours and a little water (supposed 70 Fathoms Post)    22.71     269.18 Dark blue metal, with metal balls and ironstone girdles (at a depth of about 1 fathom from tIme top of this stratum a mussel bed of from 4 to 5 inches in thickness was passed through)    2.74     271.92 Grey metal, with post girdles    1.83     273.75 Black stone    4.09     277.84 COAL, strong and good    0.15     277.99 Grey metal, with post girdles    6.40     284.39 White post, with a little water (supposed Main Post)    5.79     290.18 Grey metal, with ironstone girdles    1.83     292.01 COAL - Supposed Main coal Seam    0.46     292.44     COAL    0.36          Black slaty band    0.03          COAL    0.05      Black slaty stone    0.91     293.36 Black slaty stone, mixed with coal pipes    0.15     293.51 Grey shale stone    1.68     295.19 Grey metal stone    6.40     301.59 Grey metal, with post girdles    10.06     311.65 Strong grey post, with metal partings and whin girdles and a little water    13.46     325.11 Blue metal girdles    0.61     325.74 White post girdles, with metal partings    0.69     326.43 COAL (supposed Metal Coal Seam)    0.56     326.99 Grey thill, with ironstone balls    1.22     328.21 Strong grey metal, with post girdles    3.05     331.25 Strong dark grey metal, with post girdles    4.27     335.52 COAL, splint    0.13     335.65 Grey metal, with post girdles    3.05     338.70 Strong white post, with whin girdles    3.66     342.35 Grey whin    2.44     344.79 Grey metal, with post and iron girdles    10.08     354.87 Black slaty stone    0.30     355.18 COAL    0.23     355.41 Swad    0.08     355.48 Shale    1.22     356.70 Grey metal stone, with whin girdles    2.36     359.07 COAL    0.08     359.14 Grey metal stone, with post and whin girdles    7.70     366.84 COAL - Yard Seam    1.27     368.11     COAL    0.20          Band    0.10          COAL    0.97      Thill stone    1.27     369.38 Black stone    0.15     369.50 COAL, splinty    0.05     369.58 Grey metal    0.36     369.94 Dark grey metal, with ironstone girdles    1.88     371.82 Grey metal, with ironstone girdles    3.43     375.24 Grey post, with metal partings    4.57     379.82 Dark grey metal, with ironstone girdles    2.44     382.25 White post, with whin girdles    1.68     383.93 Grey post, with scamy metal partings and whin girdles    6.76     390.69 Black metal    0.10     390.79 COAL - Bensham Seam    1.83     392.62     COAL, top    0.91          Splint    0.05          COAL, bottom    0.86      Sump :-    7.72     400.34     Blue metal, with whin, white post, and ironstone girdles    0.00      COAL - Six-Quarter Seam    1.12     401.46     COAL, splinty    0.61          COAL, good    0.51      Left off in strong grey post    0.91     402.37

Source: An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Volume F-K, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1885

  original entry for sinking/boring number 1079 in "An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Volume F-K, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1885"

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