Throckley, Coal Workings

HER Number:
3970

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Throckley, Coal Workings

Place:
Throckley

Map Sheet:
NZ16NE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific:
Coal Workings

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
An area of Old Coal Workings is marked on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, suggesting that it had probably gone out of use by 1855. The precise extent and nature of these workings is unclear from the map evidence.

Easting:
1650

Northing:
6838

Grid Reference:
NZ16506838

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 3970 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 87; Headland Archaeology, 2017. Dewley Hill Surface Mine.