Kenton Close, Coal Pit (Lady Pit?)

Kenton Close, Coal Pit (Lady Pit?)

HER Number
1591
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Kenton Close, Coal Pit (Lady Pit?)
Place
Byker
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Coal Mining Site
Site Type: Specific
Colliery
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
TThe solid geology of the area is of Westphalian C & B sandstones with three coal crop lines running diagonally across the site, two of which are known to have been worked at some time in the past. It is likely that the exploitation of coal in the vicinity goes back hundereds of years; certainly to the later medieval period. Two pits lie in Kenton Close, one is called Kenton Pit (SMR 1592) and this one is unnamed. It may be Lady Pit shown on a Plan of Low Heaton c1740. This pit is only shown on one map, a plan of the Manor of Byker of c.1810, and probably exploited the Top Ryhope Little coal seam which outcropped in the area. There does not appear to have been a waggonway associated with these pits.
Easting
426510
Northing
564790
Grid Reference
NZ426510564790
Sources
<< HER 1591 >> The Archaeological Practice, 1997, Shields Road, Regeneration, Archaeological Assessment; Turnbull, L, 2015, A Celebration of our Mining Heritage