Scotswood, Drift Mine

HER Number:
5114

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Scotswood, Drift Mine

Place:
Scotswood

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:
Tunnel Portal

Site Type: Specific:
Tunnel Portal

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
Stone and brick-built entrance to stone-lined tunnel; interpreted as a drift mine, but may have been for a railway incline. Restored by City Council in 1986. Part of the inclined railway from the Scotswood Delaval Drift passes under the former Scotswood, Newburn and Wylam Railway in the form of a tunnel passing through the embankment of the Railway across the road from the Vickers' Works.

Easting:
421070

Northing:
563570

Grid Reference:
NZ421070563570

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5114 >> English Heritage, Monuments Protection Program, Site Assessment I. Ayris & S.M. Linsley, 1994, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Tyne and Wear, p 39