Bakers Main Pit

HER Number

15481

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Bakers Main Pit

Place

Scotswood

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

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 Gibson's map of 1787 and Casson's map of 1801.

Easting

419380

Northing

564580

Grid Reference

NZ419380564580

Sources

Alan Williams Archaeology, July 2012, Waggonways North of the River Tyne - Tyne and Wear HER Enhancement Project; Gibson 1787: Plan of the Collieries of the Rivers Tyne and Wear; Casson 1801: Map of the Rivers Tyne and Wear