Holystone, Coal Mine

HER Number:
1152

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Holystone, Coal Mine

Place:
Holystone

Map Sheet:
NZ37SW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific:
Colliery

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Possible old coal mine, though not labelled as such on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map. May have been associated with possible wagonway (HER ref. 1154).

Easting:
3085

Northing:
7001

Grid Reference:
NZ30857001

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1152 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 89 W.W. Tomlinson, 1980, Historical Notes on Cullercoats Whitley and Monkseaton, (reprinted) p 59-60; ASUD, 2010, Scaffold Hill, North Tyneside - Archaeological Assessment