Outside of those limits, however, the variations in the character of the Bottom coal are many and sometimes come in suddenly. Even within those limits we have the following sections:—
FT. | IN. | FT. | IN. | |
Coal | 4 | 9 | ||
Parting | 0 | 8 | – | |
Holers coal | 1 | 0 | ||
0 | 8 | 5 | 9 | |
Total with partings | 6 | 5 |
FT. | IN. | FT. | IN. | |
Gainies, bad coal | 1 | 6 | ||
Parting batt | 0 | 4 | – | |
Top coal | 5 | 3 | ||
Parting batt | 10 | 0 | – | |
Holers coal | 4 | 6 | ||
10 | 4 | 11 | 3 | |
Total with partings | 21 | 7 |
FT. | IN. | FT. | IN. | |
Coal | 4 | 6 | ||
Rock | 6 | 0 | ||
Rock binds | 3 | 0 | ||
Ironstone balls | 1 | 0 | ||
Rock binds | 4 | 0 | ||
Coal, believed to be Holers | 3 | 0 | ||
14 | 0 | 7 | 6 | |
Total with other beds | 21 | 6 |
These three places lie in a straight line about one mile in length, and running nearly west-north-west and east-south-east.
About a mile south of Bilston, at Highfields and Bradley, the Bottom coal is only 3 or 4 feet thick. At Tipton Moat Colliery it is 9 ft. 6 in., from which 2 ft. 6 in. must be deducted for three "parting batts;" at Tipton Green there is said to be "coal and batt," 11 ft. 9 in.; and at the Foxyards, 9 or 10 feet of coal. Farther south, however, at Coneygree and Dudley Port, the Bottom coal, if it exist at all, is not more than a foot or so in thickness.
At Shaver's End, just north of Dudley, the following was the section in a trial pit of Lord Ward's:—
FT. | IN. | FT. | IN. | |
[2]Coal | 2 | 0 | ||
Parting | 0 | 9 | – | |
Coal | 2 | 0 | ||
Parting | 0 | 7 | – | |
Coal | 0 | 10 | ||
Parting | 1 | 0 | – | |
Coal | 2 | 10 | ||
2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | |
Total with partings | 9 | 2 |