Large chips off marble, two water spouts missing, badly eroded lion-head spouts, loss of detail on spire, green algae on base {2000, Usherwood, Beach and Morris}. Repaired in 2005/6 by North Tyneside Council - small stone indents to steps and plinth, new marble finial to top of obelisk and four new bronze lion spouts {Tyne and Wear Specialist Conservation Team Annual Report 2005/6}.

Byermoor is known to have been exploited for its coal reserves from at least the early eighteenth century when a wagonway (HER 5952 and 5953) was built across it and contemporary maps show coal mines there. Abandonment of mining seems to have occurred in the 1730s when the wagonway closed. A diverse range of archaeological remains associated with early eighteenth century mining are visible at Byermoor, mostly as earthworks, some as cropmarks. Such remains are now rare in the county of Tyne and Wear. In view of their rarity, diversity and good state of preservation the remains on Byermoor must be regarded as of high regional significance. The importance of the remains of early coal mining and transport on Byermoor is enhanced by the presence of underlying ridge and furrow cultivation features, thereby reflecting the move from farming to mining at a time when more investment was made in mining at the beginning of the eighteenth century.

Byermoor is known to have been exploited for its coal reserves from at least the early eighteenth century when a wagonway (HER 5952 and 5953) was built across it and contemporary maps show coal mines there. Abandonment of mining seems to have occurred in the 1730s when the wagonway closed. A diverse range of archaeological remains associated with early eighteenth century mining are visible at Byermoor, mostly as earthworks, some as cropmarks. Such remains are now rare in the county of Tyne and Wear. In view of their rarity, diversity and good state of preservation the remains on Byermoor must be regarded as of high regional significance. The importance of the remains of early coal mining and transport on Byermoor is enhanced by the presence of underlying ridge and furrow cultivation features, thereby reflecting the move from farming to mining at a time when more investment was made in mining at the beginning of the eighteenth century.

Byermoor is known to have been exploited for its coal reserves from at least the early eighteenth century when a wagonway (HER 5952 and 5953) was built across it and contemporary maps show coal mines there. Abandonment of mining seems to have occurred in the 1730s when the wagonway closed. A diverse range of archaeological remains associated with early eighteenth century mining are visible at Byermoor, mostly as earthworks, some as cropmarks. Such remains are now rare in the county of Tyne and Wear. In view of their rarity, diversity and good state of preservation the remains on Byermoor must be regarded as of high regional significance. The importance of the remains of early coal mining and transport on Byermoor is enhanced by the presence of underlying ridge and furrow cultivation features, thereby reflecting the move from farming to mining at a time when more investment was made in mining at the beginning of the eighteenth century.

Byermoor is known to have been exploited for its coal reserves from at least the early eighteenth century when a wagonway (HER 5952 and 5953) was built across it and contemporary maps show coal mines there. Abandonment of mining seems to have occurred in the 1730s when the wagonway closed. A diverse range of archaeological remains associated with early eighteenth century mining are visible at Byermoor, mostly as earthworks, some as cropmarks. Such remains are now rare in the county of Tyne and Wear. In view of their rarity, diversity and good state of preservation the remains on Byermoor must be regarded as of high regional significance. The importance of the remains of early coal mining and transport on Byermoor is enhanced by the presence of underlying ridge and furrow cultivation features, thereby reflecting the move from farming to mining at a time when more investment was made in mining at the beginning of the eighteenth century.