Byermoor, Shaft

HER Number

3660

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Byermoor, Shaft

Place

Byermoor

Map Sheet

NZ15NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Mining Industry Site

Site Type: Specific

Mine Shaft

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Earthwork

Description

Shaft, marked as Old on the 1st edition OS mapping, so was out of use by 1857. Two earthworks survive here of two concentric circles, interpreted as a "win-gin" (horse-driven winding engine) with the outer circle representing the circular course of the horse, and the inner circle the turning circle of the central shaft.

Easting

418120

Northing

557660

Grid Reference

NZ418120557660

Sources

<< HER 3660 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 6; The Archaeological Practice Ltd, Byermoor Farm - Archaeological Assessment