Phoenix Drift

Phoenix Drift

HER Number

6990

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Phoenix Drift

Place

Greenside

Map Sheet

NZ16SW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Mineral Extraction Site

Site Type: Specific

Clay Pit

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition as a clay pit. Closed 1964.

Easting

413550

Northing

562840

Grid Reference

NZ413550562840

Sources

Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk; Ordnance Survey second edition map 1890