Throckley, Brass Pit

HER Number:
3967

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Throckley, Brass 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:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Disused mine shaft, one of many in the area visible as circular crop marks on aerial photographs. Dating is uncertain, but coal mining is known to have been carried out in the area from at least the early 17th century and is very likely to have been practiced earlier. Small workings of this sort may have been exploited up to the late 19th century. The mine shaft is marked as Old on the 1st edition OS mapping, so was out of use by 1860. Shown on an eighteenth century plan ZAN/M17/197/a/24.

Easting:
1652

Northing:
6775

Grid Reference:
NZ16526775

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 3967 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 87