Hall Pit

HER Number

3014

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Hall Pit

Place

Fatfield

Map Sheet

NZ25SE

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

Hall Pit. An explosion on 28 September 1813 killed 32 miners.

Easting

428930

Northing

554570

Grid Reference

NZ428930554570

Sources

<< HER 3014 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 13; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk; AL Lind, 1974, The History of Fatfield and Harraton; Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd, 2008, An Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment: The Former Goodyear Dunlop Tyre Factory, Wear Industrial Estate, Washington, Tyne and Wear