Tuesday Pit

HER Number

16447

Site Name

Tuesday Pit

Place

West Chirton

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Coal Workings

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Identified in Coal Authority report and on mine abandonment plan 1801. May have been worked as pillars.

Easting

433250

Northing

568360

Grid Reference

NZ433250568360

Sources

WSP, 2014, West Chirton (South) Industrial Estate - Archaeological Assessment