Scaffold Hill, Coal Pit

HER Number

1158

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Scaffold Hill, Coal Pit

Place

Scaffold Hill

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

A Coal Pit, possibly associated with Green Lane (HER ref. 1159). Marked as ‘Old’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, so probably disused by 1858.

Easting

430790

Northing

569260

Grid Reference

NZ430790569260

Sources

<< HER 1158 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 89; English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1405610; Aerial Photograph RAF 106G/UK/1193 4177 27-FEB-1946