East Engine Pit

HER Number

3925

District

Newcastle

Site Name

East Engine Pit

Place

Throckley

Map Sheet

NZ16NE

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

East Engine Pit (Coal) is marked on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, but not shown on the 2nd edition plan, indicating that it was out of use by 1895, by which time the site has been lost within Throckley Colliery.

Easting

415360

Northing

565830

Grid Reference

NZ415360565830

Sources

<< HER 3925 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 96; Alan Williams Archaeology, 2012, Waggonways North of the River Tyne: Tyne and Wear HER Enhancement Project 2011-12; Map of Throckley Fell 1774 (mining institute); Turnbull, L. 2009 Coals from Newcastle: An Introduction to the Northumberland and Durham Coalfield