High Spen, coal workings

HER Number

11637

District

Gateshead

Site Name

High Spen, coal workings

Place

High Spen

Map Sheet

NZ16SW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Coal Workings

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Post Medieval 1540 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Destroyed Monument

Description

Post medieval area of coal working visible as earthworks on air photographs taken in 1946. Destroyed by quarrying by 1959.

Easting

413570

Northing

561280

Grid Reference

NZ413570561280

Sources

English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1442998; Aerial Photograph RAF 106G/UK/1193 3319 27-FEB-1946