Fortune Pit

HER Number

3948

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Fortune Pit

Place

Throckley

Map Sheet

NZ16NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Fortune Pit (Coal) is shown at this location on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, but is not shown on the 2nd edition plan, indicating that it was out of use by c.1895.

Easting

414850

Northing

567050

Grid Reference

NZ414850567050

Sources

<< HER 3948 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 87