Jocky Pit, Number 1

Jocky Pit, Number 1

HER Number
3978
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Jocky Pit, Number 1
Place
Black Callerton
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
Circular crop-mark feature, probably marking the location of a disused shaft, one of many features associated with mining in the area visible as crop marks on aerial photographs. Dating is uncertain, but coal mining is known to have been carried out in the area from at least the early 17th century and is very likely to have been practiced earlier. Small workings of this sort may have been exploited up to the late 19th century. Jocky Pit, Number 1 (Coal). It is out of use on the 2nd edition OS mapping, 1895 survey.
Easting
416950
Northing
569260
Grid Reference
NZ416950569260
Sources
<< HER 3978 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 87