Content Pit

HER Number

3567

District

Gateshead

Site Name

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

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Shaft, marked as Old on the 1st edition OS mapping, so was out of use by 1857. Shown and named on a plan of 1779. Linked to Mary Pit by a waggonway.

Easting

418160

Northing

562190

Grid Reference

NZ418160562190

Sources

<< HER 3567 >> 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