Scotswood, Drift Mine
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
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
I. Ayris & S.M. Linsley, 1994, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Tyne and Wear, p 39