Rye Hill Field Pit

HER Number

15444

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Rye Hill Field Pit

Place

Chirton

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

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

Shown on a map of 1784.

Easting

433440

Northing

567950

Grid Reference

NZ433440567950

Sources

Alan Williams Archaeology, July 2012, Waggonways North of the River Tyne - Tyne and Wear HER Enhancement Project; North East Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineering: All Watson Papers prefixed NRO/3410/ Watson 21/4: Plan of Balkwell Farm, the property of Sir Ralph Milbank. Surveyed by J Fryer 1784