Bigg Pit

Bigg Pit

HER Number

3960

District

Outside

Site Name

Bigg Pit

Place

Throckley

Map Sheet

NZ16NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Historic Ordnance Survey map evidence shows Rigg Pit (Coal) at this location.

Easting

415410

Northing

567700

Grid Reference

NZ415410567700

Sources

<< HER 3960 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 87