Chirton, Low Trench Field Pits

HER Number:
15445

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Chirton, Low Trench Field Pits

Place:
Chirton

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific:
Colliery

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Two pits. Shown on a map of 1784.

Easting:
3331

Northing:
6826

Grid Reference:
NZ33316826

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Alan Williams Archaeology, July 2012, Waggonways North of the River Tyne - Tyne and Wear HER Enhancement Project; North East Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineering: All Watson Papers prefixed NRO/3410/ Watson 21/4: Plan of Balkwell Farm, the property of Sir Ralph Milbank. Surveyed by J Fryer 1784; WSP, 2014, West Chirton (South) Industrial Estate - Archaeological Assessment