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SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE.
FT. | IN. | FT. | IN | ||||||
85. | Strong dark ground | 6 | 0 | 57 | 3 | ||||
86. | Peldon | 1 | 0 | ||||||
87. | Parting | 0 | 8 | ||||||
88. | Strong dark batt | 4 | 0 | ||||||
89. | Parting | 0 | 6 | ||||||
90. | Strong dark batt | 6 | 4 | ||||||
91. | Light binds | 31 | 9 | ||||||
92. | Rock | 7 | 0 | ||||||
93. | Brooch Coal (of Wyrley) | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | ||||
94. | Dark ground | 3 | 6 | ||||||
95. | Coal ( ? Benches of "Wyrley) | 0 | 7 | ||||||
96. | Light binds | 20 | 5 | 73 | 10 | ||||
97. | Strong rock | 7 | 0 | ||||||
98. | Coal (not known at Wyrley) | 2 | 0 | ||||||
99. | Parting | 1 | 3 | ||||||
100. | Strong light binds | 19 | 2 | ||||||
101. | Ditto with ironstone | 20 | 3 | ||||||
102. | Light binds | 3 | 9 | ||||||
103 | Bottom Coal of Wyrley | Coal | 5 | 6 | 8 | 7 | |||
Parting | 0 | 7 | |||||||
Coal | 2 | 6 | |||||||
104. | Various measures | 38 | 0 | ||||||
105. | Four Foot Coal | 4 | 0 | ||||||
589 | 0 |
(Vertical Sections, sheet 26, No. 38).
The following are the abstracts of some other Wyrley sections :—
Section at Longhouse.
FT. | IN. | FT. | IN. | ||
1. | Red sandy rotch, perhaps part of New Red sandstone | 35 | 6 | – | |
2. | Alternations of clunch, grey rock, and black batt | 101 | 0 | – | |
3. | Coal and batt | 1 | 9 | ||
4. | Rock and clunch | 10 | 0 | – | |
5. | Coals and partings, principally batts | 5 | 10 | ||
6. | Dark clunch | 1 | 11 | – | |
7. | Coal | 2 | 0 | ||
8. | Fire-clay, clunch, and rock | 74 | 0 | – | |
9. | Coal (Old Robins coal) | 6 | 6 | ||
10. | Various measures | 84 | 0 | – | |
11. | Coal (probably the Charles coal) | 3 | 0 | ||
12. | Various measures | 54 | 0 | – | |
13. | Coal (Cannel coal) | 3 | 6 | ||
14. | Various measures | 81 | 0 | – | |
15. | Coal (Brooch and Benches) | 7 | |||
16. | Various measures | 48 | 0 | – | |
17. | Coal (called Bottom coal) [1] | 7 | 0 | ||
489 | 5 | 36 | 7 | ||
36 | 7 | ||||
526 | 0 |
- ↑ In several parts of the Wyrley field there is in the Bottom (or Deep) coal what is known to the colliers as the Middle batt or parting. This is always found, but