Tyne and Wear HER(7805): Crescent Farm, mine shaft - Details
7805
Newcastle
Crescent Farm, mine shaft
Dewley
NZ16NE
Industrial
Mining Industry Site
Mine Shaft
POST MEDIEVAL
Post Medieval 1540 to 1901
Cropmark
Disused mine shaft, one of many in the area visible as circular crop marks on aerial photographs. Dating is uncertain, but coal mining is known to have been carried out in the area from at least the early 17th century and is very likely to have been practiced earlier. Small workings of this sort may have been exploited up to the late 19th century.
416860
569350
NZ416860569350
The Archaeological Practice, 1996, Crescent Farm Opencast Coal Site: Archaeological Assessment, Fig. AP2. Unpublished report prepared for RJB MINING (UK) Limited. (T&W HER 1996/Box 11A/26)