SHAFT SECTIONS OF THE IRONSTONE AND LOWER COAL-FIELD. 479 



1. Willington near Wolverhampton, 

 (very productive mines.) 



Soil 



Sand and gravel 2 2 



Red clay 2 0 



Blue clay 1 0 



Dark chinch 4 0 



Heathen coal 1 0 



Dark chinch 3 1 



Rubble coal 1 0 



Dark chinch 1 2 



White rock 1 2 



Rock binds 2 0 



Light clod 0 2 



Top hinds 0 0 



Light clod 0 1 



Bottom binds 0 0 



New mine chinch 0 1 



g f New mine top stone 0 0 



•| pt | J Light chinch 1 0 



£ 2 B 1 New mine bottom 



jg? 83 l_ STONE 0 1 



Penny stone measure 6 0 



Sulphur coal 1 0 



Soft clunch 6 0 



Rock binds 8 0 



Stony peldon 1 0 



Rock binds 6 0 



Sharp white rock 1 0 



Rock binds 8 0 



White rock 0 1 



Soft clod 0 1 



New mine coal 2 



Stony dark fire clay 1 



Fire clay coal and bat 3 



Fire clay 1 



Little coal 0 



Stony bat . 3 



Poor Robin f Poor robin iron- 



ironstone. \ stone and clod 0 



Stony dark clod 1 



Whitry including whitry stone ... 1 



"Black ironstone 0 0 



Bass 0 0 



White ironstone 0 0 



Clod 0 0 



Bottom white ironstone. 0 0 



Clod 0 0 



Brown ironstone 0 0 



Soft" white clay 0 0 



Cannel coal 0 0 



Gaynes {species of coal) 0 2 



Soft fire clay 0 0 



New mine bottom coal 3 0 



Soft white clay 0 0 



Stoily fire clay and rocks 2 0 



White clod 2 0 



Balls f" Balls ironstone 0 0 



iron- \ Clod 0 2 



stone. L Balls ironstone 0 0 



Dark clod 0 1 



Gubbin |~ Gubbin ironstone ... 0 0 



iron- \ Clod 0 1 



stone. |_ Gubbin ironstone ... 0 0 



Clod 0 1 



Slums, a kind of coal 1 1 



Stony brown rock 8 2 



Green rock 8 1 



Coal slums 0 2 



Brown fire clay 2 0 



White rock 0 1 



Light clod 1 1 



Rock 0 0 



Clod • 0 0 



Blue flats ironstone 0 0 



Clod 0 1 



Blue flats chance 0 0 



Clod 0 0 



Bottom blue flats 0 0 



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yds. ft. in. 

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 0 

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 6 

 3 

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 3 

 3 



6 

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 6 

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 0 

 6 

 8 

 6 

 6 

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3 

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 9 

 3 

 6 

 6 

 9 

 3 

 6 

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 6 

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 6 

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 8 

 6 

 6 

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 0 

 3 

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 0 

 0 

 0 

 6 

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 6 

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 6 

 5 

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 5 

 6 

 2 



2. Rough Hills north of Wallsall. 



Total 114 0 5 



yds. ft. in. 



Surface 



Red ground "1 



I 14 o o 



Clay [ 



Dry sand... J 



Whitery and blackery 2 0 0 



Little gubbin 0 2 6 



Table bat 1 1 0 



White clunch 8 0 0 



Heathen coal 0 2 3 



Bat 0 1 2 



Grey rock and clunch 4 0 0 



Rubble coal 0 2 4 



White clod 6 0 0 



Peldon 0 0 6 



New mine stone 12 0 



Penny stone measures 7 0 0 



Stinking coal 1 0 0 



White clunch 3 1 6 



New mine rock 18 0 0 



New mine coal 2 0 4 



Fire clay and rock 9 0 0 



Fire clay coal 3 0 0 



Dark ground 4 1 6 



Little coal 0 2 0 



Fireclay 12 6 



Getting rock 0 0 6 



Parting 2 1 6 



Poor robin 0 2 6 



Dark clod 2 1 0 



Basses 0 2 0 



Black and white stone 11 0 



Brown stone 0 1 8 



Basses Kenneys and lamb 0 2 11 



Bottom coal 3 0 0 



Fire clay and rock 4 0 0 



Roof 1 1 0 



Balls and gubbin 2 1 0 



Dark clod and slums 1 2 4 



Fire clay and rock 5 1 6 



Singing coal 1 0 6 



Fire ciay and rock 8 0 0 



Blue flats 2 0 0 



3. 



Birch Hills east of Wallsall. 



Total 137 0 4 



yds. ft. in. 



Clay 3 0 0 



Heathen coal 0 2 



Bat 0 0 



Fire clay 0 3 



Clunch 0 2 



Brown bat 0 



0 



'Brown ironstone 0 0 



Brown bat 0 2 



Brown (iron) stone 0 0 



Rock bind or strong clunch. 3 0 



White (iron) stone 0 0 



Chinch 0 2 



White stone 0 0 



Clunch 0 2 



White stone 0 0 



Black stone 0 0 



Clunch with concretions 

 (cakes) of ironstone (one 



inch thick) , 1 



(Penny Measures) 



Clunch with concretions of 



ironstone 3 0 



Stinking coal 0 1 



Fire clay — impure 2 0 



Rock binds or strong clunch 9 0 



Strong-bedded white sandstone . . 6 0 



Coal, (yard coal) 1 0 



Fire clay 2 0 



Sandstone rock (whitish) 4 0 



Peldon, a hard grit 2 0 



Rock bind 7 1 



Coal, (four foot coal) 



Brown bat 1 



Rock binds 1 



Strong white rock (sandstone) ... 0 



Rock binds 4 



Brown bat mixed with coal 0 



Coal {fire clay coal) of poor 



quality 0 



Fire clay and poor coal alter- 

 nating 1 



Brown bat 0 



Rock binds 2 



Strong grey rock 0 



Dark clunch with concretions of 



ironstone (cakes) 3 



Ironstone, nodular, with many 



Uniones 0 0 



Clunch 0 3 



Coal separated by eight inches of 



brown bat 4 0 



Fire clay 0 1 



Grey clunch 2 0 



Ironstone (Gubbing) 0 0 



Dark clunch 0 1 



Coal parting and fire clay 0 0 



0 6 



7 



1 1 



2 5 



0 0 



5 

 9 



Total 76 1 4 



The ironstone measures, called the " ball 

 stones," and the blue fiats are supposed to 

 occur 30 yards and upwards beneath the 

 bottom of this shaft. 



At the Lane Head works, distant from 

 those of the Birch Hills about a mile and a 

 half, the " brown ironstone measures " of 

 the same section are entirely wanting. 

 Again, two of the coal seams, which at Lane 

 Head are separated by a great thickness of 

 other measures, are so close together at 

 Monmore Lane Collieries, distant only one 

 mile, that they are simply divided by a few 

 feet of impure coal shale, the "hob and 

 job " of the workmen. 



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