Main Colliery, Content Pit

HER Number

3561

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Main Colliery, Content Pit

Place

Winlaton

Map Sheet

NZ16SE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Mining Industry Site

Site Type: Specific

Mine Shaft

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Shaft, marked as Old on the 1st edition OS mapping, so was out of use by 1857. Shown on a map of 1779 as Content Pit.

Easting

418330

Northing

562350

Grid Reference

NZ418330562350

Sources

<< HER 3561 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 6; The East Part of Winlaton Lordship showing the borings to the Frive Quarter Coal, 1779, held by The Coal Authority D1454 Sheet 1 of 2