Bounder Pit

HER Number

3940

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Bounder Pit

Place

Throckley

Map Sheet

NZ16NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Coal Workings

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

This Coal Pit 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 c.1895. Also shown on a Map of Throckley Fell 1774.

Easting

414510

Northing

566600

Grid Reference

NZ414510566600

Sources

<< HER 3940 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 87; A Map of Throckley Fell 1774