Scotswood, Drift Mine

HER Number:
5114

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Scotswood, Drift Mine

Place:
Scotswood

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Tunnel

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
Stone and brick-built entrance to stone-lined tunnel; interpreted as a drift mine, but may have been for a railway incline. Restored by City Council in 1986. Part of the inclined railway from the Scotswood Delaval Drift passes under the former Scotswood, Newburn and Wylam Railway in the form of a tunnel passing through the embankment of the Railway across the road from the Vickers' Works.

Easting:
2107

Northing:
6357

Grid Reference:
NZ21076357

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5114 >> English Heritage, Monuments Protection Program, Site Assessment I. Ayris & S.M. Linsley, 1994, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Tyne and Wear, p 39