Percy Main Colliery, Flatworth Pit

HER Number

1174

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Percy Main Colliery, Flatworth Pit

Place

Howdon

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Destroyed Monument

Description

Flatworth coal pit. Percy Main Colliery, possibly associated with the nearby Colliery Offices (HER 2022) and Wagonway (HER 2024). There were two associated pits - Flatworth Pit and Percy Pit. Thomas Hair drew a picture of the colliery in 1844. Out of use by 1852.

Easting

432710

Northing

567910

Grid Reference

NZ432710567910

Sources

<< HER 1174 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 89; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk; T. Hair, 1844, Views of the collieries in the counties of Northumberland and Durham; English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1405728; Aerial Photograph RAF 3G/TUD/UK/125 5148 04-APR-1946; Archaeological Services Durham University, 2015, Narvik Way, Tyne Tunnel Trading Estate, North Tyneside - Archaeological Assessment