Murton Pit

HER Number

15448

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Murton Pit

Place

New York

Map Sheet

NZ37SW

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

Documentary Evidence

Description

Shown on a map of 1764.

Easting

432900

Northing

570110

Grid Reference

NZ432900570110

Sources

Alan Williams Archaeology, July 2012, Waggonways North of the River Tyne - Tyne and Wear HER Enhancement Project; North East Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineering, All Watson Papers prefixed NRO/3410/ Watson 21/8: Estate plan of Chirton, property of Edward Collingwood etc. Marking boreholes and dykes, 1764