Etal Colliery was a long running operation around a mile west of Etal village, on the road from Slainsfield - a set of cottages inhabited by colliers at the pit. It was less a modern colliery, but a decentralised complex of shafts with a couple of ground level sites to process and transport the product. Overall, there were around 20 shafts across the whole moor operating similar to that at Stublick.

Though the coal shafts surrounding this site are from the 18th century, there were more modern investigations after the 1860s and this is one of them. It appears they simply reopened the previous workings for landsale. This site was closed by the 1860s but featured a substantial heap and was likely the reason for the pit housing 100m or so west. There is still evidence of the operations with satellite images displaying the heaps and disturbance to the ground.

The Northumberland Name Books suggests the Etal collieries were owned by the Earl of Glasgow Captain James Carr-Boyle, who was previously in the Royal Navy and MP for Ayrshire from 1849 to 1843. Before his death, it appears the portfolio was sold onto the Scremerston & Shoreswood Coal Co.