1) Coal mine 2) Exclusively Saxon word 3) Exclusively Anglo word 4) Mine 5) Work 6) Workplace 7) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins 8) Word of purely Anglo origin Found on https://www.crosswordclues.com/clue/colliery
This is another word for a coal mine. It includes all the buildings and machinery on the surface, as well as all the passages beneath the ground. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20766
Col'lier·y noun ; plural Collieries . [ Confer Coalery , Collier .] 1. The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it. 2. The coal trade. [ Obsolete] Johnson. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/109