Blaydon Burn, drift

HER Number

8413

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Blaydon Burn, drift

Place

Blaydon Burn

Map Sheet

NZ16SE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Coal Workings

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Shown on 2nd edition OS of 1896 but not the 3rd of 1913-4, by which time it had presumably gone out of use.

Easting

416830

Northing

562270

Grid Reference

NZ416830562270

Sources

Northern Archaeological Associates & Northern Counties Archaeological Services, 2005, Blaydon Burn, Gateshead - Archaeological Desk Based Assessment and Building Survey of Industrial Structures