Black Callerton, Jocky Pit, Number 1

HER Number:
3978

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Black Callerton, Jocky Pit, Number 1

Place:
Black Callerton

Map Sheet:
NZ16NE

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:
Circular crop-mark feature, probably marking the location of a disused shaft, one of many features associated with mining in the area visible as 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. Jocky Pit, Number 1 (Coal). It is out of use on the 2nd edition OS mapping, 1895 survey.

Easting:
1695

Northing:
6926

Grid Reference:
NZ16956926

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 3978 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 87