Durham Mining Museum - Local Records Extracts (original) (raw)

1820

April 28. — An explosion took place in Jarrow colliery, by which event two persons lost their lives. [_LHTB_]

November. — This month, immediately above the excavation of the lime-stone at Carley-hill quarry, which is situated about a quarter of a mile west of Fulwell hill, in the parish of Monkwearmouth, and about two hundred yards west of Hill-house, the residence of Mr. Wake, senior, whilst removing the surplus soil, Thomas Dobson, quarryman, found a Roman figure, which appeared to be a Lar. There were found at the same time, several portions of human bones, and a quantity of common rock limpit shells, embedded in lime-stone rubbish and surface soil. It is worthy of remark, that several excavations have been discovered in the solid lime-stone rock at Carley-hill (similar to stone coffins) containing human bones. [_LRS_]

• LHTB — Local Historian's Table Book of Remarkable Occurrences Connected with the Counties of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham by M.A. Richardson. Published in five volumes in 1844.
• LRS — Local Records or Historical Register of Remarkable Events by John Sykes, Published in 1833 in two volumes