Percy Pit

Percy Pit

HER Number

8481

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Percy Pit

Place

Throckley

Map Sheet

NZ16NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Coal Workings

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Percy Pit is shown on an eighteenth century map ZAN/M17/197/a/24. Shown as a clump of trees on OS first edition.

Easting

416090

Northing

567840

Grid Reference

NZ416090567840

Sources

Northumberland Record Office ZAN/M17/197/a/24