First and Second Pits

HER Number

15462

District

Newcastle

Site Name

First and Second Pits

Place

Gosforth

Map Sheet

NZ26NE

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 circa 1745.

Easting

425980

Northing

568200

Grid Reference

NZ425980568200

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 20/A9: Estate plan of Longbenton, property of Lord Carlisle, showing borings, pits, water levels, waggonways and line of the Great Dyke, 1745