Elsewhere we get the following section:—
Lower Bradly.[1]
| |
FT. |
IN.
|
| Fire-clay |
9 |
0
|
| Getting rock |
9 |
0
|
| Dark ground |
17 |
6
|
| |
35 |
6
|
Coseley.[2]
| |
FT. |
IN.
|
| Rock |
6 |
6
|
| Ironstone measures |
4 |
6
|
| Binds |
5 |
6
|
| |
16 |
6
|
Near Cann Lane.[3]
| |
FT. |
IN.
|
| Strong rock |
28 |
0
|
| Black batt |
3 |
0
|
| |
31 |
0
|
Near Darlastorn.[1]
| |
FT. |
IN.
|
| Brown bastard fire-clay |
10 |
9
|
| White rock |
0 |
3
|
| Brown clunch |
6 |
0
|
| |
17 |
0
|
The Foxyards.[4]
| |
FT. |
IN.
|
| Fire-clay rock |
2 |
0
|
| Dark rock |
3 |
0
|
| Fire-clay balls (Poor robin ?) |
3 |
6
|
| Ironstone (Rough Hills White |
2 |
6
|
| |
11 |
0
|
Tipton Green.[5]
| |
FT. |
IN.
|
| Rock |
9 |
5
|
| Rock, with balls iron stone |
1 |
11
|
| Rock |
6 |
10
|
|
|
18
|
2
|
32. (XXII.) The Bottom Coal.[6]—In the part of the coal-field near Wolverhampton, this coal has a pretty uniform thickness of about 12 feet, as in the following section given me by Mr. W. Ward, from a pit a little south of Stow-heath furnace:—
| |
FT. |
IN. |
FT. |
IN.
|
| Gainies (inferior coal)[7]
|
|
2 |
0
|
| Top coal |
|
5 |
0
|
| Parting |
1 |
0 |
–
|
| Holers coal |
|
4 |
0
|
|
|
1
|
0
|
11
|
0
|
| Total with parting
|
12
|
0
|
This condition of the Bottom coal extends generally from Wolverhampton to Willenhall, Bilston, Darlaston, and Coseley.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Communicated by Mr. S. H. Blackwell.
- ↑ From the " Miners' Guide."
- ↑ Communicated by Mr. Grogart.
- ↑ Communicated from Lord Ward's office.
- ↑ Communicated by Mr. Johnson.
- ↑ This name, assigned to it at first in one locality, turns out, as is often the case, to be a misnomer, as in other localities there are other coals below it, one of which at least is sometimes worth getting.
- ↑ Takes its name, I believe, as the bed by which they first arrive at or gain the coal in sinking a pit.
