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Book 8 Seam Names And Codes

Chimneys
  Seam Names 

Seam Names And Codes - Page 4


Seams In Descending Order From The Surface

North Derbyshire

Upper Thin
Lower Thin above Wales
Wales
Clowne
Main Bright
Two Foot
Foxearth
Low Bright
Sough
Brinsley Thin
Furnace
High Hazel
1st St Johns
Main Smut
2nd St Johns
Coombe
Top Hard
Dunsil
Swallow Wood
Ist Waterloo
Waterloo Marker
2nd Waterloo
Bottom 2nd Waterloo
3rd Waterloo
4th Waterloo
1st Ell
2nd Ell

Lower Coal Measures

Brown Rake
Chavery or Black Rake
Sitwell or Dunston or Clay Cross Soft
Black Rake Ironstone
Top Soft
Upper Top Soft
Lower Top Soft
False Ell
Roof Soft
Flockton
Clay Cross Soft
Deep Soft
Roof Coal
Smithies
Deep Hard or Potters, Pothouse, Townend, Deep End or Squires
1st Piper) Townend Thin, Pancake or Parkgate
2nd Piper)
Deep Hard / Piper
Piper
Parkgate
Hospital
Tupton or Low Main
Low Main / Thorncliffe
Three Quarter or Tupton Threequarters or Lees
Yard
Blackshale Upper
Blackshale or Silkstone
Silkstone
Ashgate or Brampton Thin
Ashgate / Mickley
Mickley Thick
Mickley Thin or Upper Brampton
Upper Brampton
Lower Brampton or Walkers
Morley
Kilburn or Grenoside Sandstone coal
Norton
Forty Yards
Alton
Second Smalley
First Smalley
Holbrook
Belper Lawn or Soft Bed
Pot Clay Marine Band
Baslow
Mountain
Grenoside Sandstone
Low Tupton
1st Smalley
2nd Smalley
Cockleshell
Soft Bed
Hard bed
Upper band
Base 1st Waterloo
Cinderhill
Lidget
Inkersall
Measure and Ball
Gorsey Knowl
Redfern
Strange Rake
Old Mans Rake
New Mine
Rough Rake
Tanyard Rake
Whetstone Rake
Great Rake
Ell Coal
Pindar Park
Brown Rake
Black Rake
Conglomerate
Springs Rake
Wallis Rake
Dogtooth coal
Dogtooth (Rake)
Orchard Rake
Three Quarter Rake
Strip Rake
Nodule Rake
Blackshale Rake
Sow / Honeycroft Rake
Civil / Dale Moor Rake
Ketland Rake
Fireclay
Fireclay

Other seam names
but not in order

See also in Book 1 at beginning

Top seam in descending order from the surface

Thin Blackshale
Thick Blackshale

Nottinghamshire

Gypsum and Marl
Blyth
High Main or upper Silkstone
First Wales
Second Wales
Swinton Pottery
Clowne or Main Hard
Main Bright or Fox Earth
Middle Bright
Two Foot or Sough
Low Bright or Furnace
Low Bright / Brinsley
Brinsley
Brinsley Thin
Abdy
High Hazles or Hazels or Hazel or Beamshaw
Kents Thick
Main Smut
Cinderhill
First St Johns
Hospital
Second St Johns
Coombe or Comb
Top Hard or Barnsley Bed
Dunsil
First Waterloo
Waterloo Marker or Barcelona or Blocking
Bottom First Waterloo
Top First Waterloo
Second Waterloo
Swallow Wood
Bottom Second Waterloo
Top Second Waterloo
Third Waterloo
Haigh Moor
Fourth Waterloo
Low Waterloo
First Ell
Second Ell

Lower Coal Measures

Brown Rake
Joan
Top Soft
Upper Top Soft
Lower Top Soft
Deep Soft
Deep Hard
Deep Hard / Piper
First Piper
Second Piper both equals Parkgate
Hospital
Cockleshell
Tupton or Low Main
Threequarter
Yard
Yard / Blackshale
Blackshale or Silkstone
Upper Blackshale
Lower Blackshale
Blackshale / Ashgate
Ashgate
Ashgate Upper
Ashgate Lower
Mickley
Morley or Morley Muck
Clod
Kilburn
Alton
Belper Lawn
Millstone Grit

Base of coal measures

See also in Book 1 at beginning

Top seam in descending order from the surface

 

 

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