Whickham, mine shafts

HER Number

11683

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Whickham, mine shafts

Place

Whickham

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Mining Industry Site

Site Type: Specific

Mine Shaft

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Post Medieval 1540 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Levelled Earthwork

Description

Shafts, probably of Post Medieval date, seen on air photographs. Look like bell pits. They run down the hillside, over a distance of 300m east to west and 350m south-west to north-east, towards a dismantled railway. Now levelled.

Easting

422340

Northing

560260

Grid Reference

NZ422340560260

Sources

English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1432164; Aerial Photograph RAF 58/B/35 5135 16-MAY-1948; TWM, 2012, Proposed Dunston Hill, Urban Extension, Dunston, Gateshead - Archaeological Assessment