Macaroni Pit

HER Number

15452

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Macaroni Pit

Place

Shiremoor

Map Sheet

NZ37SW

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 the Shiremoor Enclosure Map of 1790. 'Macaroni' is shown on the Ordnance Survey first edition of 1858.

Easting

431540

Northing

569530

Grid Reference

NZ431540569530

Sources

Alan Williams Archaeology, July 2012, Waggonways North of the River Tyne - Tyne and Wear HER Enhancement Project; Shiremoor Enclosure Map 1790